††††††††
(a.2)†
"ambulance" means a vehicle designed or used for carrying ill or injured persons for compensation;

††††††††††††
(b)†
"axle" means a single axle which transfers the load carried by it approximately equally to the wheel or wheel attached to each end of the axle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
"axle mass" means the mass indicated when the vehicle is weighed with the rear wheels or with the front wheels on the scales or weighing device or with other wheels on the scales or weighing device where those wheels are mounted on the same axle;

††††††††††††
(e)†
"bicycle" means a device propelled by human power upon which a person may ride, having 2 wheels in tandem;

††††††††††††
(f)†
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††††††††††††
(g)†
"bus" means a motor vehicle, designed or used for the transportation of passengers with a seating capacity of 10 or more in addition to the driver, but excluding those motor vehicles when used for personal transportation by the owner or with the owner's permission;

††††††††††††
(h)†
"centre line", except on a one-way roadway, means

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the centre of a roadway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the roadway, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
where on a laned roadway there are more lanes available for traffic in 1 direction than in the other direction, the line dividing the lanes for traffic in different directions;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
"chauffeur" means a person who for compensation drives or operates a motor vehicle whether or not he or she is the owner;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
"commercial motor vehicle" means a vehicle designed to carry goods, and includes a bus, a school bus, a truck, a truck tractor and other motor vehicles designed for commercial use but does not include camper type vehicles designed or adapted exclusively for recreational purposes;

††††††††††††
(k)†
"controlled-access highway" means a highway

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
on to which persons have a right to enter from abutting land, and

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
from which persons have a right to enter on to abutting land, only at fixed locations;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
"council" means the council or board of trustees established to control and manage a municipality;

††††††††††
(m)†
"crosswalk" means

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a part of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs or by lines or other markings on the surface, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
the part of a roadway at an intersection that is included within the connection of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on the opposite sides of a highway, measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the roadway;

††††††††††††
(n)†
"curb mass" means the actual mass of a motor vehicle when unladen but including the body, battery, loose tools, spare wheels, and other usual equipment and a full supply of water and fuel used for the purpose of propulsion;

††††††††††††
(o)†
"dealer" means a person who, as principal or agent, engages in the business of buying, selling or exchanging new or second hand motor vehicles or trailers;

††††††††††††
(p)†
"dealer's plate" means a plate issued to a dealer to be attached by the dealer to a vehicle that is used for demonstration purposes with a view to the sale of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(q)†
"department" means the department presided over by the minister;

††††††††††††
(s)†
"driver" means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle;

†††††††††††††
(t)†
"driver's licence" means a licence which has been issued under this Act, including a licence issued to a novice driver, authorizing the person to whom it is issued to drive a motor vehicle and which has not expired or been suspended or cancelled;

††††††††††††
(u)†
"driveway" means a clearly defined private road, way, drive, path or passage or a similar opening or space which is wide enough, but not wider than is necessary, for the passage of a motor vehicle, which the owner, occupier or user of property has vehicular access from a roadway to a point within the property;

††††††††††††
(v)†
"emergency vehicle" means

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a motor vehicle driven by a peace officer or by a member of the police branch of 1 of the Crown's Armed Forces where there is an emergency justifying a rate of speed in excess of a maximum rate of speed provided for in this Act and includes a vehicle so operated by a chief of a volunteer fire department,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
a motor vehicle carrying firefighting equipment in responding to an alarm of fire, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
an ambulance responding to a call or transporting a patient where there is an emergency justifying a rate of speed in excess of a maximum rate of speed provided for in this Act;

††††††††
(v.1)†
"enforcement officer" means

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a conservation officer as defined in the Endangered Species Act
,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
a wild life officer appointed under the Wild Life Act
,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
a person designated as a peace officer under the Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles Regulations
, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
a forestry official as defined in the Forestry Act
;

†††††††††††
(w)†
"examiner" means a person appointed under section 44;

††††††††††††
(x)†
"fictitious identification plate or marker" means an identification plate, sticker or marker which has not been issued under this Act or which has not been issued for the registration year in which it is used or which is attached to a vehicle other than that for which it was issued but does not include an identification plate, sticker or marker on a foreign vehicle lawfully operated in the province;

††††††††††††
(y)†
"financial responsibility card" means a card issued to a named insured by an insurer in accordance with section 79;

††††††††††††
(z)†
"garage" means a place or premises where motor vehicles are received for housing, storage or repairs for compensation;

†††††††††
(aa)†
"highway" means a place or way, including a structure forming part of the place or way, designed and intended for, or used by, the public for the passage of traffic or the parking of vehicles and includes all the space between the boundary lines of the place or way;

†††††††††
(bb)†
"identification plate" means an identification plate issued under this Act in respect of a vehicle;

††††††
(bb.1)†
"ignition interlock device" means a device designed to ascertain the presence of alcohol in a driver's body and to prevent a motor vehicle from being started if the concentration of alcohol in the driver's body exceeds the prescribed limit;

††††††††††
(cc)†
"implement of husbandry" means a vehicle which is designed for use for agricultural purposes and which is used exclusively in the conduct of agricultural operations but does not include a vehicle designed primarily for the transportation of persons or property on a highway;

†††††††††
(dd)†
"inspector" means a traffic officer or a person appointed under this Act to inspect or examine vehicles or drivers and records pertaining to either;

††††††††††
(ee)†
"insurer" means a person licensed under the Insurance Companies Act
to carry on the business of automobile insurance in the province;

†††††††††††
(ff)†
"intersection" means the area enclosed within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, where there are no curb lines, the lateral boundary lines of 2 or more highways that join one another at an angle, whether or not 1 highway crosses the other;

††††††††††
(gg)†
"issue" includes to renew;

†††††††††
(hh)†
"laned roadway" means a roadway which is divided into 2 or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic;

††††††††††††
(ii)†
"left" or "left-hand" in reference to a highway or the position of traffic on the highway means the left when facing or moving in the direction of travel;

†††††††††††
(jj)†
"licence" means a licence which has been issued under this Act and which has not expired or been suspended or cancelled;

†††††††††
(kk)†
"maximum gross mass" or "M.G.M." means, in reference to a commercial motor vehicle, the curb mass together with the load, including the mass of the driver and of other persons carried, and, in reference to a bus or school bus, the curb mass together with the mass of the driver and of the number of passengers for which the vehicle is licensed, and for the purposes of a regulation unless otherwise provided in the regulation, the mass of a person shall be taken as 70 kilograms;

††††††††††††
(ll)†
"minister" unless otherwise specified, means the minister appointed under the Executive Council Act
to administer this Act;

†††††††
(mm)†
"moped" means a vehicle that

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
has steering handle bars completely constrained from rotating in relation to the axle of 1 wheel in contact with the ground,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
is designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
has a maximum attainable speed on level ground, unassisted by operating the pedal system, not exceeding 50 kilometres an hour,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
has pedals by which the vehicle can be propelled by the operator,

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
has a power source that produces a maximum 1.5 k.w or piston displacement not exceeding 50 cm,

†††††††††††††††††††
(vi)†
has a power drive system that does not require clutching or shifting, by the operator, after the drive system is engaged, and

††††††††††††††††††
(vii)†
has a maximum weight of 55 kilograms, excluding fuel or battery used to start engine for vehicle propulsion;

†††††††††
(nn)†
"motor cycle" means a motor vehicle that

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
has steering handle bars completely constrained from rotating in relation to the axle of 1 wheel in contact with the ground,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
is designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
in the case of a 3 wheel vehicle that

†††††††††††††††††††††††††††
(A)†
does not have as an integral part of the vehicle an enclosure around the occupant, and

†††††††††††††††††††††††††††
(B)†
requires the operator to sit astride the vehicle,

but does not include a competition motor cycle, mini bicycle, moped, motor driven bicycle, a passenger car, a truck or a multi-purpose vehicle;

†††††††††
(oo)†
"motor vehicle" means a vehicle propelled, driven or controlled otherwise than by muscular power, other than a trailer or a vehicle running upon fixed rails;

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
a town, community or region established or continued under the Municipalities Act
;

††††††
(qq.1)†
"non-repairable vehicle" means a vehicle which is incapable of operation or use on the highway and which has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap;

†††††††††††
(rr)†
"non-resident" means a person who is not a resident of the province;

†††††††††††
(ss)†
"official inspection station" means a recognized place of business registered in accordance with the regulations as a facility where inspections and tests on motor vehicles may be carried out;

†††††††††††
(tt)†
"one-way roadway" means a roadway designated and marked by the minister, a traffic authority or a municipality as a roadway upon which vehicles shall be operated in 1 direction only;

†††††††††
(uu)†
"operator" means a person driving a motor vehicle on a highway or who has the care or control of the motor vehicle on a highway whether in motion or not;

†††††††††
(vv)†
"owner" means,

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the person who holds the legal title to a vehicle,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
in the case of a vehicle that is registered, the person in whose name it is registered,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
in the case of a vehicle that is the subject of a mortgage, the mortgagor if the mortgagor is entitled to possession of the vehicle,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
in the case of a vehicle that is the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, the person in possession of the vehicle under the agreement, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
in the case of a vehicle that is the subject of a conditional sale contract, the buyer under the conditional sale contract if the buyer is entitled to possession of the vehicle;

††††††††
(ww)†
"park" means to permit a vehicle, whether occupied or not, to stand otherwise than temporarily for the immediate purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading goods or taking up or setting down passengers or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or the directions of a traffic officer;

†††††††††
(xx)†
"peace officer" includes a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force stationed in the province, a member of a municipal police force and a park warden appointed under the Public Service Employment Act
(Canada
) who is stationed in the province;

†††††††††
(yy)†
"pedestrian" means a person on foot, a handicapped person in a wheelchair or a child in a carriage or a sleigh;

††††††††††
(zz)†
"permit" means a permit which has been issued under this Act and which has not expired or been suspended or cancelled;

†††††††
(ddd)†
"registrar" means the Registrar of Motor Vehicles appointed under this Act;

††††††††
(eee)†
"registration" means the registration of a motor vehicle or trailer under this Act;

†††††††††
(fff)†
"regulate" includes govern, control, permit, restrict, prevent, prohibit and exclude and the power to prescribe conditions;

††††††††
(ggg)†
"resident" means a person who lives in the province for 90 consecutive days or longer in a year;

†††††††
(hhh)†
"right" or "right-hand" in reference to a highway or the position of traffic on the highway means the right when facing or moving in the direction of travel;

†††††††††††
(iii)†
"right-of-way" means the privilege of the immediate use of the roadway;

††††††††††
(jjj)†
"roadway" means the portion of a highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder unless the shoulder is paved, and where a highway includes 2 or more separate roadways the term "roadway" refers to any 1 roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively;

†††††††
(kkk)†
"safety zone" means an area or space which is set apart within a highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone;

††††
(kkk.1)†
"salvage vehicle" means a vehicle which is damaged by collision, fire, flood, accident, trespass or other occurrence to the extent that the cost of repairing the vehicle for operation on the highway exceeds the vehicleís fair market value immediately prior to the damage;

†††††††††††
(lll)†
"school bus" means a motor vehicle

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
designed or used to carry 7 or more passengers in addition to the driver,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
owned, operated by or contracted to a school board or an agent of a school board, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
used to transport children to or from school or to and from places other than school for the purpose of school related activities;

†††
(mmm)†
"sidewalk" means that portion of a highway lying between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines set apart for the use of pedestrians and, includes a part of a highway set apart or marked as being for the exclusive use of pedestrians and is considered to include an area of a highway lying between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and that portion of a highway set apart for the use of pedestrians;

(mmm.1)†
"slow moving vehicle" means a vehicle that is not capable of attaining and sustaining a speed of 80 kilometres an hour;

†††††††
(nnn)†
"state" means a State in the United States of America
and includes the District of Columbia
;

†††††††
(ooo)†
"stop" means

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
when required, the complete cessation of movement, and

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
when prohibited, any stopping or standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a traffic officer or traffic-control device or signal;

†††††††
(ppp)†
"Superintendent of Insurance" means the Superintendent of Insurance appointed in the manner authorized by law;

†††††††
(qqq)†
"taxi" means a motor vehicle used to transport passengers for compensation other than

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a bus or a school bus used to transport passengers for compensation, and

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
another motor vehicle not referred to in subparagraph (i) that only transports children to and from school and school related activities under a contract with a school board for that purpose;

††††††††††
(rrr)†
"tire" means that part of a wheel, roller or other contrivance for the moving of an object upon a highway which comes into direct contact with the surface of the highway;

†††††††††
(sss)†
"traction engine" means a mechanically-propelled vehicle running on wheels or caterpillar tracks and designed primarily for traction purposes and not constructed itself to carry a load other than equipment used for the purpose of propulsion, loose tools and equipment, and includes snow ploughs, road conditioning machines and the like;

††††††††††
(ttt)†
"traffic" includes vehicles, pedestrians and animals while using a highway for the purpose of travel;

†††††††
(uuu)†
"traffic authority" means the St. John's
Traffic Commission appointed by the St. John's
Municipal Council and the Corner Brook Traffic Commission appointed by the Corner Brook City Council, and includes a council;

†††††††
(vvv)†
"traffic-control device" means a traffic sign, traffic-control signal, marking, symbol or device consistent with this Act placed or erected by authority of the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or a traffic authority for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic and includes those contained in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada;

†††††
(www)†
"traffic-control signal" means a traffic-control device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed;

†††††††
(yyy)†
"traffic sign" includes all traffic control signals, warning sign-posts, direction-posts, signs, lines, marks or other devices for the guidance of persons using highways;

††††††††
(zzz)†
"trailer" means a vehicle which has no motive power of its own and which is attached to a truck, or truck tractor or other motor vehicle but does not include

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
an implement of husbandry temporarily attached to another vehicle,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
a side car attached to a motor cycle, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
a tow dolly designed to be used to tow another motor vehicle where one or more axles of the towed vehicle rest on the tow dolly;

†††††
(aaaa)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s1]

†††††
(bbbb)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s1]

††††††
(cccc)†
"truck" means a motor vehicle that is constructed for or primarily used for the transportation of property;

†††††
(dddd)†
"truck tractor" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing another vehicle and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the mass of the vehicle load so drawn;

††††††† 4.
(1)†An employee of the division shall be designated as Registrar of Motor Vehicles to perform the duties established in this Act or another Act.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Another employee of the division shall be designated as Deputy Registrar of Motor Vehicles who, in the absence or inability of the registrar or when the office of the registrar is vacant, has the powers and shall perform the duties of the registrar.

††††††††††††
(3)†
In the absence or inability of the deputy registrar or when the office of the deputy registrar is vacant, a member of the division staff named by the minister has, in the circumstances in subsection (2), the powers and shall perform the duties of the registrar.

††††††††††††
(4)†
One or more employees of the division may be designated Deputy Registrars (Local) of Motor Vehicles who may, when in charge of offices of the division outside St. Johnís, exercise those powers of the registrar delegated to them by order of the minister.

††††††† 6.
(1)†Where a copy of a record or of an entry in records kept in the division is required for the purposes of proceedings started or to be started in a court in the province, the registrar, upon the request of a party to those proceedings, shall prepare a copy of the required record or entry and deliver it to a peace officer or to an officer of the court together with a certificate that the copy is a true copy of the record or entry.

††††††††
(1.1)†
Where information contained in driver or vehicle records, or of an entry in those records kept in the division, is requested, a copy of the information contained in the record may be released to

††††††††††††
(a)†
other government departments or agencies of the province, a municipality, the Government of Canada, the government of another Canadian jurisdiction, or the government of a state or country, to ensure compliance with a statute or order;

††††††††††††
(b)†
research groups, market analysis companies, study groups and similar organizations, where the information is not to be used for solicitation purposes;

††††††††††††
(c)†
motor vehicle manufacturers or other agents for recall of defective motor vehicles; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
another individual, group or agency where in the opinion of the minister the release of the information is not contrary to the public interest.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A copy of a record or entry attached to or forming part of a certificate given under subsection (1) when purported to be signed by the registrar is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the record or entry and shall be received in evidence by a court in the province without proof of the signature of the registrar on the certificate.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The registrar shall not prepare a copy of a record or entry under subsection (1) where, in the opinion of the minister, the production of the record or entry is contrary to public policy.

††††††† 7.
The registrar shall examine and determine the authenticity, regularity and legality of each application made under this Act and may for that purpose

††††††††††††
(a)†
investigate the application or the applicant; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
require additional information from the applicant

and the registrar shall reject the application where he or she is not satisfied with the authenticity, regularity or legality of the application or with the truth of a statement contained in it or for another reason provided for in this Act.

††††††† 8.
(1)†Where the minister or the registrar is authorized or required under this Act or the regulations to give a notice, the notice shall be served

††††††††††††
(a)†
by personal delivery of the notice to the person to be notified; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
by certified or registered prepaid mail or ordinary mail addressed to the person to be notified at the address as shown in the records of the division.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The service of a notice by mail in accordance with subsection (1) is completed

††††††††††††
(a)†
in the City of St. John's upon the expiration of 7 days after the notice was delivered to the post office; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
outside the City of St. John's
upon the expiration of 14 days after the notice was delivered to the post office.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Proof of the service of a notice in either manner provided for in subsection (1) may be made by the certificate of an officer or employee of the division or by an affidavit naming the person to whom the notice was given and specifying the time, place and manner of service.

††††††††††††
(4)†
In a prosecution for an offence under this Act or the regulations a document that purports to be a certificate of the registrar that the notice was served in the manner provided in subsection (1)

††††††††††††
(a)†
is admissible in evidence without proof of the signature of the registrar; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
is presumptive proof that the person named in the certificate received notice of the matters referred to in the certificate.

††††††† 9.
(1)†The registrar and those officers of the department that the minister may designate as traffic officers have the power

††††††††††††
(a)†
of peace officers for the purpose of enforcing this Act and the regulations;

††††††††
(a.1)†
to seize and impound vehicles under paragraph 75(6.1)(b);

††††††††††††
(b)†
to make arrests upon view and without warrant for a violation of this Act or the regulations committed in their presence;

††††††††††††
(c)†
to direct traffic in accordance with this Act and the regulations in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite the movement of traffic or ensure safety on a highway;

††††††††††††
(d)†
upon reasonable belief that a motor vehicle is being operated contrary to this Act or the regulations, to require the driver of that vehicle to stop and exhibit his or her driver's licence and the licence of the vehicle and to submit to an inspection of the vehicle and the identification plates attached to the vehicle or to an inspection and test of the equipment of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(e)†
to inspect a motor vehicle in a garage other than a private garage or in a repair shop or a place where motor vehicles are held for sale or wrecking, for the purpose of locating a stolen vehicle or investigating the registration of the motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(f)†
to serve all warrants relating to the enforcement of this Act and the regulations; and

††††††††††††
(g)†
to investigate traffic accidents and secure the testimony of witnesses or persons involved in the accidents.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Officers referred to in subsection (1) shall when exercising a power under that subsection display a badge of office which the minister shall prescribe and provide.

††††† 10.
(1)†A person shall not operate or, being the owner, allow another person to operate, a motor vehicle on a highway unless

††††††††††††
(a)†
the motor vehicle is registered;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a trailer drawn by the motor vehicle is registered;

††††††††††††
(c)†
there is in effect a vehicle licence, appropriate to the class of vehicle, issued under this Act in respect of the motor vehicle and of a trailer drawn by the motor vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
there is affixed to the motor vehicle and a trailer drawn by the motor vehicle, in the manner prescribed in this Act or the regulations, valid identification plates or markers issued under this Act or the regulations in respect of the motor vehicle and trailer.

††††††††††††
(2)†
On an application for a vehicle licence the applicant shall make a declaration in a form prescribed by the registrar as to whether or not the motor vehicle is insured by a policy and the registrar may require evidence of that policy.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the registrar may, in order to permit a vehicle which is not licensed or registered to be operated on a highway

††††††††††††
(a)†
for the purpose of being registered;

††††††††††††
(b)†
to be moved from one place to another for repairs or to be inspected before registration;

††††††††††††
(c)†
to be moved from a point of entry into the province to a dealer's premises; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
for another purpose approved by the registrar,

upon receipt of the fee that may be prescribed by the minister, issue a permit for the operation of the vehicle for the journey specified in the permit subject to those conditions that the registrar may prescribe in the permit respecting the affixing of a temporary marker to the vehicle and the manner of displaying it while the vehicle is on a highway.

††††† 11.
(1)†The owner of a motor vehicle or trailer shall before it is operated on a highway apply to the registrar for the registration or renewal of registration of the motor vehicle or trailer.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person who applies for registration or renewal of registration shall apply upon a form prescribed by the registrar.

††††††††††††
(3)†
An application for registration or renewal of registration of a vehicle owned by a corporation shall be signed on behalf of that corporation by a person who in accordance with the regulations governing the conduct of that corporation is ordinarily empowered to sign documents on behalf of the corporation.

††††††††††††
(4)†
An application for registration shall contain

††††††††††††
(a)†
the name, place of residence and mailing address of the owner of the vehicle or the business address where the owner is a corporation, partnership or association;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a description of the vehicle, including, where the information required under this paragraph is known or available, the make, model, type of body, the manufacturer's serial number or other identifying mark on the vehicle and, if it is new, the date of sale by the dealer to the owner;

††††††††††††
(c)†
in the case of a vehicle designed, constructed, converted or rebuilt for the transportation of persons or property, the maximum gross mass of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(d)†
where the owner is applying for the 1st time for the registration of the vehicle described in the application, the amount of the purchase price and whether a tax in respect of the vehicle has been paid; and

††††††††††††
(e)†
whatever other information the registrar may require.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where the manufacturer's serial number or other identifying mark on a vehicle has been obliterated or defaced the registrar shall not register the vehicle until the owner has satisfied the registrar as to the ownership of the vehicle and, if the owner knows it, the reason for the obliteration or defacement and the registrar may permit the owner to cut, impress, emboss or attach permanently to the vehicle a number or mark which afterward is sufficient as an identifying mark for the purposes of paragraph (4)(b).

††††††††††††
(7)†
A person who applies to the registrar for registration shall submit with the application the fees prescribed by the minister for registration of a vehicle of the class described in the application.

††††††††††††
(8)†
Where a person pays the prescribed fee for registration at a bank the registration is considered to be valid for the time period that may be established by regulation.

††††††††††††
(9)†
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†††††††††
(10)†
The registrar may, before registering a vehicle, require that it be examined and tested by an inspector or official inspection station to determine whether it is of a construction or in a condition that it may be registered for the purpose for which it is intended or for any purpose and the owner of the vehicle shall, at his or her own expense, facilitate the examination and test and, where required by the inspector or official inspection station, dismantle and expose a part of the mechanism or machinery.

†††††††††
(11)†
The registrar shall before registering a bus or school bus ascertain in accordance with the regulations the maximum number of passengers which the bus or school bus may carry and enter that number in the record kept in the division in respect of the bus or school bus.

†††††††††
(12)†
The registrar shall before registering a commercial motor vehicle ascertain in accordance with the regulations the maximum gross mass at which the vehicle may be operated when loaded and enter that mass in the record kept in the division in respect of the commercial motor vehicle.

†††††††††
(13)†
Where a vehicle in respect of which an application for registration is filed is a specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicle that fact shall be stated in the application and where the foreign vehicle has been previously registered outside the province the owner shall surrender to the registrar a registration plate, permit or licence or other evidence of foreign registration in the owner's possession or control.

†††††††††
(14)†
In this section "foreign vehicle" means a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this Act and brought into this province from another jurisdiction, other than a new vehicle brought into this province in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer, and not registered in this province.

††††† 12.
(1)†An owner or operator of a passenger vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, who is a resident of the province shall register it as required under section 11.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A non-resident who owns or operates a passenger vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, that is registered in a jurisdiction outside the province in which the non-resident lives and which the person operates for private use, may operate that vehicle in the province without registering it under this Act.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person who enters the province to take up residence may operate a vehicle in the province for a period of not longer than 90 days before registering the vehicle as required by this Act.

††††† 13.
(1)†A commercial motor vehicle owned or operated by or on behalf of a non-resident shall not be operated in the province unless it is registered under this Act.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Subsection (1) does not apply to a commercial motor vehicle registered or licensed in a jurisdiction outside the province that allows commercial motor vehicles registered under this Act to be operated on the highways of that jurisdiction without requiring the registration or licensing of those vehicles in that jurisdiction.

†† 13.1
A person who operates a motor vehicle required to be registered under section 61 of the Revenue Administration Act
who is not registered as required by that section commits an offence under this Act.

††††† 14.
(1)†A vehicle owned or operated by a non-resident in this province is subject to all the restrictions and regulations as to dimensions, equipment and traffic control which apply to a vehicle registered in the province.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A commercial motor vehicle registered in a jurisdiction outside the province shall, while being operated under subsection 13(2), be considered to be registered under this Act at either the maximum gross mass permitted under the laws of the province for that type of vehicle or the maximum gross mass for which it is registered in that jurisdiction, whichever is the lesser.

††††† 15.
The exemptions from registration provided for in this Act in respect of non-residents do not apply to a person who operates a commercial motor vehicle for intra-provincial transportation in the province.

††††† 16.
(1)†Subject to the regulations, upon receipt of an application in the prescribed form for the registration of a vehicle and upon being satisfied that

††††††††††††
(a)†
the fees prescribed by the minister have been paid;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the facts stated in the application are true;

††††††††††††
(c)†
the provisions of section 11 that apply to the registration of the vehicle have been complied with; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
the person is not, due to non-payment of fines, subject to an action listed under section 16.1,

the registrar shall register the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar shall issue, in respect of a vehicle that has been registered,

††††††††††††
(a)†
a numbered vehicle licence in a form prescribed by the registrar; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
one or more identification plates as determined by the registrar, and the identification plates shall be distinctive and numbered as the registrar may determine.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The registrar shall not register a vehicle or a transfer of a vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
where the application for registration or transfer contains a false or fraudulent statement;

††††††††††††
(b)†
where the applicant for registration or transfer has failed to provide information required under this Act or the regulations;

††††††††††††
(c)†
where the fees prescribed by the minister have not been paid;

††††††††††††
(d)†
where the provisions of section 11 that apply to the registration of a vehicle have not been complied with;

††††††††††††
(e)†
where the registrar has reasonable grounds to believe that the vehicle is a stolen vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(f)†
where the registration of the vehicle has been suspended or cancelled in accordance with this Act and the period of suspension or cancellation has not expired.

††††††††††††
(4)†
The registrar may issue different vehicle licences and identification plates in respect of different classes of vehicles or in respect of the same class of vehicle used for different purposes.

††††††††††††
(5)†
The registrar may attach to

††††††††††††
(a)†
a vehicle licence issued in respect of a bus or school bus a condition that the bus or school bus shall not be used to carry at one time a greater number of passengers than the number specified in the licence;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a vehicle licence issued in respect of a commercial motor vehicle a condition that the vehicle shall not be operated when the maximum gross mass of the vehicle when loaded exceeds the mass specified in the licence; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
a vehicle licence issued in respect of a vehicle a condition that the vehicle shall not be operated

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
except on certain highways or classes of highways or parts of highways specified in the licence, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
in excess of the maximum speed specified in the licence on certain highways or classes of highways or parts of highways specified in the licence or on a highway,

having regard to the size, mass or construction of the vehicle and the possibility of its being injurious to the highway or of being a source of danger to persons travelling in the vehicle or using the highway or to other vehicles on the highway.

††††††††††††
(6)†
The registrar may issue a temporary permit to operate a vehicle for which application for registration has been made, pending action by the registrar on the application and the registrar may attach to the temporary permit conditions respecting the use and operation of the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(7)†
The registrar may refuse to register a vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
where an inspector has certified that the vehicle is of a construction or in a condition which makes it mechanically unfit or unsafe to be operated or moved on a highway or because it may injure the highway or be a source of danger to persons travelling in the vehicle or using the highway or to other vehicles on the highway;

††††††††††††
(b)†
where it appears to the registrar that the vehicle or the use of the vehicle contravenes of this or another Act or the regulations;

††††††††††††
(c)†
where the owner of the vehicle owes money to the Crown on account of an assessment under Part VIII of the Revenue Administration Act
or under Part IX of the Excise Tax Act
(Canada
) in respect of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(d)†
where the owner of the vehicle has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Criminal Code
arising out of the use or operation of that or another vehicle and has not paid the fine or served the term of imprisonment imposed by the convicting court in respect of the offence; or

††††††††††††
(e)†
where a person other than the owner has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Criminal Code
arising out of the use or operation of the vehicle with the consent or knowledge of the owner and has not paid the fine or served the term of imprisonment imposed by the convicting court in respect of the offence.

†† 16.1
(1)†Where a person who has not paid a fine, including a fine under the Criminal Code
payable to the Crown, is the holder of a driver's licence or a vehicle registration, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall not issue or renew the driver's licence or vehicle registration or register a transfer of a vehicle of the person where he or she has not paid the fine or an applicable late payment penalty within the time allowed, until the fine or late payment penalty are paid, and the proof of payment is the responsibility of the person.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who has failed to pay a fine relating to a conviction for a violation of a regulation made under the City of St. John's Act,
the City of Corner Brook Act
, the City of Mount Pearl Act,
the Municipalities Act, 1999
or the Urban and Rural Planning Act, 2000
that does not involve the operation of a motor vehicle.

††††† 17.
(1)†The registrar may issue to a dealer a licence to authorize the use of vehicles that are owned or operated by the dealer and may, in accordance with the regulations issue dealer's plates to be attached to those vehicles.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A dealer shall not transfer or assign a licence issued under this section except with the prior written consent of the registrar.

††††† 18.
A dealer's licence is valid to authorize the use of a vehicle when used solely or principally in connection with his or her business by the dealer and also in connection with the business of the dealer when the vehicle is being tested or is being moved to effect repairs or to obtain registration, and for its demonstration to a prospective buyer and for the transfer of a vehicle from a point of debarkation or importation.

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period not exceeding 3 consecutive days by a person to whom the vehicle has been loaned by the dealer for demonstration purposes with a view to the sale of the vehicle to that person.

††††† 25.
The registrar may cancel or suspend a dealer's licence for a breach of a provision contained in sections 17 to 24 and the dealer, upon receipt of a request from the registrar, shall return to the registrar the dealer's plates issued to the dealer.

††††† 27.
A vehicle shall not be operated on a highway under a dealer's licence unless the vehicle bears a dealer's plate issued with the licence and is attached to the vehicle in accordance with this Act.

††††† 28.
(1)†Every licence, identification plate, marker and permit that the registrar issues is and remains the property of the Crown and shall be returned to the registrar on his or her request.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a person finds an identification plate or vehicle licence that was not issued in respect of a vehicle that person owns and the period for which the identification plate or vehicle licence was issued has not expired, the finder shall return the plate or licence to the registrar or nearest traffic officer.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A traffic officer who receives an identification plate or vehicle licence under subsection (2) shall return the identification plate or vehicle licence to the registrar.

††††† 30.
(1)†A driver, owner, or a person having care or control of a vehicle shall ensure that identification plates are securely fastened at all times to the vehicle for which they are issued so as to prevent the plates from swinging and are at a height of not less than 30 centimetres from the ground measured from the bottom of each plate and in a place and position so that the plate is clearly visible.

††††††††††††
(2)†
In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), a driver, owner or a person having care or control of a vehicle shall ensure that

††††††††††††
(a)†
where one plate is issued, that the plate is clearly visible from the rear of the vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
where 2 plates are issued, one plate is clearly visible from the front of the vehicle and the other plate is clearly visible from the rear of the vehicle.

††††† 31.
Each identification plate shall be kept free from dirt and shall be so affixed and maintained that the numbers on it may at all times be plainly visible and clearly legible and that the view of the plate shall not be obstructed or obscured.

††††† 33.
A traffic officer, who has reason to suspect that a vehicle has exposed on it an identification plate that was not issued for it or which although issued for it was obtained by false pretences or that is being used contrary to this Act or the regulations, may take possession of the identification plate and retain it until the facts as to the carrying of the plate have been determined.

††††† 34.
The registrar may issue other plates or markers that may be prescribed in regulations made under section 195, in addition to the identification plates referred to in section 16, which shall be displayed on the vehicle in the manner that may be prescribed in the regulations.

††††† 35.
Where a vehicle licence, identification plate, marker or permit issued in respect of a vehicle is lost or becomes mutilated or illegible, the owner of the vehicle shall notify the registrar who may, on payment of the fee prescribed by the minister, issue a duplicate or substitute a new licence, identification plate, marker or permit.

††††† 37.
Where there is a sale or other transfer of ownership of a registered vehicle, the transferor and the transferee shall by written notice in the form that the registrar prescribes notify the registrar of the transfer within 10 days after the transfer takes place.

††††† 39.
Where the name of a person who has applied for or obtained registration of a vehicle is afterward changed by marriage or otherwise that person shall within 10 days notify the registrar of the change, giving the former name and new name.

††††† 40.
(1)†The registrar shall keep a record of the registration of vehicles that shall include

††††††††††††
(a)†
the name and address of each person in whose name a vehicle is registered;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the number of each vehicle licence and identification plate issued, the name and address of the person in whose name each is issued and a description of the vehicle in respect of which it is issued;

††††††††††††
(c)†
a record of each registration that has been suspended or cancelled; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
other information that the registrar may receive about the vehicle and the owner.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar may exchange on a reciprocal basis with similar officials in other jurisdictions information contained in records kept under this section.

††††† 41.
(1)†The registrar may suspend or cancel the registration of a vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
upon finding that false information was contained in the application for registration;

††††††††††††
(b)†
where a cheque taken by the division in payment of the required fee for the issuing of a vehicle licence is returned to the division because of the non-acceptance of the cheque by a bank or other financial institution;

††††††††††††
(c)†
under the circumstances referred to in subsection 16(7);

††††††††††††
(d)†
where the registrar is informed that no policy is in effect with respect to the vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(e)†
where the vehicle has been dismantled or wrecked.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar shall notify the owner of a vehicle when the registration of that vehicle is suspended or cancelled and the owner shall immediately return to the registrar the vehicle licence and identification plates of the vehicle and where the vehicle licence and identification plates are not returned the registrar may instruct an inspector or a traffic officer to take possession of the licence and plates and deliver them to the registrar.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person who dismantles, scraps or destroys or buys for scrap a vehicle in respect of which there exists a valid vehicle licence shall deliver to the registrar the identification plates and vehicle licence of that vehicle and inform the registrar that the vehicle has been or is to be dismantled, scrapped or destroyed and on receipt of the plates and licence or of the information, the registrar shall cancel the registration of the vehicle.

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
paragraph 10(1)(a) or (c), operates, or being the owner of the vehicle, allows another person to operate, a vehicle on a highway, other than a trailer, having a registered or required to be registered maximum gross mass

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
paragraph 10(1)(d) operates or being the owner of the vehicle, allows another person to operate a vehicle on a highway;

††††††††††††
(b)†
defaces or alters a vehicle licence or an identification plate or marker required to be affixed to a vehicle, subject to subsection 41(4);

††††††††
(b.1)†
defaces, alters or removes the manufacturer's vehicle identification number or other identifying mark of a vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
uses or permits the use of a vehicle bearing an identification plate or marker, required in respect of the vehicle, that is mutilated, defaced or altered;

††††††††††††
(d)†
without the authority of the owner removes from a vehicle an identification plate or marker required in respect of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(e)†
uses or permits the use of an identification plate or marker upon a motor vehicle other than the plate or marker issued for the vehicle under this Act or the regulations;

††††††††††††
(f)†
uses or permits the use of a marker or number or plate upon a motor vehicle capable of being confused with the identification plate or marker of the vehicle issued or prescribed for the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(g)†
being the owner or having the custody of a vehicle in respect of which the licence is suspended or cancelled under this Act refuses or fails to surrender the identification plates to the registrar or to a traffic officer or inspector requesting them;

††††††††††††
(h)†
gives a false name or address in an application under this Part or makes a false statement or conceals a material fact in the application or in a statement made or in giving information to the registrar for a purpose in connection with this Part;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
after the registration of a vehicle is suspended or cancelled and during the period of suspension or before the vehicle may be registered, applies for or obtains registration of the vehicle or has possession of a vehicle licence for the vehicle;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
uses or permits the use of a fictitious identification plate or marker on a vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(k)†
being required by subsection 41(3) to deliver to the registrar identification plates and vehicle licence of a vehicle or to give information to the registrar, fails to do so.

†† 42.1
In this Part, in determining whether a conviction is a second or third or subsequent conviction, the only consideration shall be the sequence of convictions and no consideration shall be given to the sequence of commission of offences or whether an offence occurred before or after a conviction.

††††† 43.
(1)†A person shall not operate upon a highway a motor vehicle or class of motor vehicle, unless that person holds a driver's licence that

††††††††††††
(a)†
has been issued to that person;

††††††††††††
(b)†
authorizes that person to operate that motor vehicle or that class of motor vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
has not expired or that is not invalid.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person

††††††††††††
(a)†
whose driverís licence has been suspended or cancelled;

††††††††††††
(b)†
who has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a driverís licence;

††††††††††††
(c)†
who has been refused a driverís licence; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
who has been prohibited from driving a motor vehicle

shall not operate upon a highway a motor vehicle or class of motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1) or (2), a person who, under this Act,

††††††††††††
(a)†
is taking a driverís examination for the purpose of obtaining a licence to operate a motor vehicle or class of motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
as part of an approved driving course being conducted by an approved driving school, is undergoing an on-road driver evaluation,

may, for the purpose of the examination or evaluation, drive an appropriate motor vehicle upon a highway when accompanied by an examiner or approved driving instructor.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person who drives a motor vehicle without a driverís licence in violation of paragraph (1)(b) is guilty of an offence and is liable

††††††††††††
(a)†
in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of $50;

††††††††††††
(b)†
in the case of a second conviction, to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $200; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
in the case of a third or subsequent conviction, to

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a fine of not less than $300 and not more than $500,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
both a fine and imprisonment.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person who drives a motor vehicle without a driverís licence in violation of paragraph (1)(a) or (c) is guilty of an offence and is liable

††††††††††††
(a)†
in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of $50;

††††††††††††
(b)†
in the case of a second conviction, where that second conviction is entered within 2 years of the first conviction, to

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $200,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
both a fine and imprisonment; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
in the case of a third or subsequent conviction, where that third or subsequent conviction is entered within 5 years of the first conviction, to

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a fine of not less than $300 and not more than $500,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
imprisonment for a term of not less than 31 days and not more than 6 months, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
both a fine and imprisonment.

††††††††††††
(6)†
A person who drives a motor vehicle in violation of subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and is liable

††††††††††††
(a)†
in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $200;

††††††††††††
(b)†
in the case of a second conviction, where that second conviction is entered within 2 years of the first conviction, to

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a fine of not less than $200 and not more than $300,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
both a fine and imprisonment; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
in the case of a third or subsequent conviction, where that third or subsequent conviction is entered within 5 years of the first conviction, to

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a fine of not less than $300 and not more than $500,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
imprisonment for a period of not less than 31 days and not more than 6 months, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
both a fine and imprisonment.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Where a judge imposes sentences of imprisonment under 2 or more of the following provisions:

††††††††††††
(a)†
paragraph (5)(b);

††††††††††††
(b)†
paragraph (5)(c);

††††††††††††
(c)†
paragraph (6)(b);

††††††††††††
(d)†
paragraph (6)(c);

††††††††††††
(e)†
paragraph 75(5.1)(a); or

††††††††††††
(f)†
paragraph 75(5.1)(b),

the judge may, in his or her discretion, direct that the sentences be served consecutively.

††††††††††††
(8)†
For the purpose of this section, an approved driving course is a course offered by an approved driving school in accordance with the regulations and an approved driving instructor is a driving instructor approved in accordance with the regulations.

††††† 45.
(1)†A person who applies for a driver's licence or renewal of a driver's licence shall apply upon a form, prescribed by the registrar and shall sign the application in his or her own handwriting with a pen.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An application for a driver's licence or renewal shall contain

††††††††††††
(a)†
the name, place of residence and the mailing address of the applicant; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
the other information that the registrar may require.

††††††††††††
(3)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s12]

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person who applies for a driver's licence shall submit with the application the fee prescribed by the minister for the issue of a driver's licence of that class.

††††††††††††
(5)†
An applicant for a driver's licence shall, where required by the registrar, file with the registrar an affidavit or statutory declaration verifying the particulars given in the application.

††††††††††††
(6)†
The registrar may before issuing a driver's licence or at a time after issuing the licence to a person require that person

††††††††††††
(a)†
to produce a birth certificate or other proof of age satisfactory to the registrar;

††††††††††††
(b)†
to undergo a medical examination and produce a certificate of the examination in the form that the registrar may prescribe to determine whether that person is physically and mentally competent to operate a motor vehicle or a class of motor vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
to take the oral, written, road driving or other examination that the registrar may authorize or direct to determine whether that person is, in the opinion of the registrar or the examiner, competent to operate a motor vehicle or a class of motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(7)†
A person shall not apply on behalf of another person for a driver's licence or renewal of a driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(8)†
A person who has been refused a driver's licence and who applies for a driver's licence without disclosing the fact of the previous refusal is guilty of an offence and where that person obtains a driver's licence without having disclosed that fact the licence so obtained is not a valid driver's licence.

††††† 46.
(1)†Subject to the regulations, upon receipt of an application in the prescribed form for the issue of a driver's licence to operate upon a highway a motor vehicle, or class of vehicle and, where required, upon compliance of the applicant with subsections 45(4), (5) and (6) and upon being satisfied that

††††††††††††
(a)†
the facts stated in the application are true; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
on the basis of the medical examination undergone under paragraph 45(6)(b) and of the examination taken under paragraph 45(6)(c), the applicant is competent to operate upon a highway a motor vehicle or the applicable class of vehicle,

the registrar shall issue to the applicant a numbered driver's licence in a form prescribed by the registrar authorizing the holder of the licence to operate upon a highway, subject to this Act and the regulations, the motor vehicle, or the class of vehicle, specified in the licence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar may in a driver's licence authorize the holder of the licence to drive more than 1 class of vehicle or to drive a vehicle for more than 1 purpose.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The registrar may, in a driver's licence restrict the holder of the licence

††††††††††††
(a)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s13]

††††††††††††
(b)†
to driving a vehicle only under the conditions or for the purposes specified in the licence; or

††††††††††††
(2)†
The expiry date of each licence shall be shown on the licence.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where a person pays the prescribed fee for a driverís licence at a bank the driverís licence is considered to be valid for the time period that may be established by regulation.

††††† 48.
(1)†Except as provided for in subsection 71(4), the registrar shall not issue a driver's licence

††††††††††††
(a)†
for the operation of a motor vehicle to a person who is under an age that may be prescribed by the regulations;

††††††††††††
(b)†
[Rep. by 1998 c16 s2];

††††††††††††
(c)†
to a person whose application contains a false or fraudulent statement;

††††††††††††
(d)†
to a person who has failed to provide information required under this Act;

††††††††††††
(e)†
where the prescribed fees for the issue of the driver's licence have not been paid;

††††††††††††
(f)†
for the operation of a motor vehicle to a person where, on the basis of a medical examination undergone under paragraph 45(6)(b) or of an examination taken under paragraph 45(6)(c), the registrar is of the opinion that that person is not competent to operate the motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(g)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s14]

††††††††††††
(h)†
to a person whose driver's licence has been suspended or cancelled in accordance with this Act and the period of suspension or cancellation has not expired;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
to a person whose driver's licence issued under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province has to the registrar's knowledge been suspended or cancelled in accordance with the laws of that jurisdiction and the period of suspension or cancellation has not expired;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
to a person who has been disqualified under this Act from holding or obtaining a driver's licence or who to the registrar's knowledge has under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province been

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
disqualified or prohibited from driving a vehicle of the class for which that person has applied for a driver's licence under this Act, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
disqualified or prohibited from holding a driver's licence to operate the class of vehicle for which that person has applied under this Act, and the disqualification or prohibition has not been lifted or the period of disqualification or prohibition has not expired;

††††††††††††
(k)†
to a person who owes money to the Crown on account of an assessment under Part VIII of the Revenue Administration Act
in respect of a vehicle;

††††††††
(k.1)†
to a person who has not paid a fine, including a fine imposed under the Criminal Code
payable to the Crown or a late payment penalty, within the time allowed for payment;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
to a person who has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Criminal Code
arising out of the use or operation of a vehicle and has not paid the fine or served the term of imprisonment imposed by the convicting court in respect of the offence;

††††††††††
(m)†
to a person who owns a vehicle used or operated with the owner's consent by another person who has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Criminal Code
arising out of the use or operation of that vehicle and who has not paid the fine or served the term of imprisonment imposed by the convicting court in respect of the offence; or

††††††††††††
(n)†
to a person whose record, in the opinion of the registrar, makes him or her unsuitable to hold a licence and in forming that opinion the registrar may consider

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the physical or mental condition or history of the applicant,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
the applicant's accident record, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
the applicant's record in this province or elsewhere in respect of offences arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle or in the commission of which a motor vehicle was used.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A driver's licence that is issued to a person contrary to subsection (1) or before the registrar has knowledge of the matter referred to in that subsection is invalid and does not become valid where the person later becomes qualified to hold a driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person shall not be entitled to a return of a fee or a portion of a fee where a licence is issued to a person contrary to subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where a person is disqualified or prohibited from driving or obtaining a driver's licence under this Act or the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province while he or she is not of a legal age to drive a motor vehicle, the registrar shall not issue a driver's licence to that person when he or she becomes of legal age to drive a motor vehicle and applies for a driver's licence, until the length of time of that disqualification or prohibition occurring before reaching that legal age has been added to the time during which the person is of a legal age to drive a motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where a person without a licence to drive a motor vehicle has been disqualified or prohibited from driving or obtaining a driver's licence under this Act or the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province, the person shall be treated as if he or she had been a licensed driver under this Act when disqualified or prohibited from driving or obtaining a driver's licence.

††††† 49.
(1)†A licence issued by the registrar is not valid until it is signed, and that signature may be reproduced by photographic or electronic means.

††††††††
(1.1)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s15]

††††††††††††
(2)†
A holder of a driverís licence

††††††††††††
(a)†
when driving a motor vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
who is an accompanying driver,

shall produce that licence when requested to do so by a traffic officer.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The production of a driver's licence at a police station within 48 hours after a request is made under subsection (2) is sufficient production of the licence for the purpose of that subsection.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a driver or person having the care or control of a vehicle who surrendered his or her driverís licence and was given notice of a suspension under section 60.01 to 60.04 or 60.1 shall, upon being asked for his or her driverís licence after the suspension period has expired, produce notice of that suspension which shall serve as proof that the person does hold a driverís licence which was suspended and has been reinstated as of the date and time given on the notice.

††††† 51.
A driver's licence is not valid to authorize the holder of it to drive other than the class of vehicles specified in the licence but the registrar may by endorsement on the licence authorize the holder to drive the other classes of vehicles that the registrar specifies in the endorsement.

††††† 52.
A person who has possession of a driver's licence issued to another person shall not hold himself or herself out to be that other person or drive or attempt to drive a motor vehicle under the authority of that driver's licence.

††††† 53.
(1)†A person 16 years or age or over who holds and possesses a valid and existing driver's licence that has been issued to that person under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province and who has not been prohibited from driving under the laws of that or another jurisdiction or of the province may, without examination or a driver's licence issued under this Act but subject to a limitation or restriction in the licence that that person holds, drive in the province, for a period of not more than 3 months from the date of his or her coming or returning to the province, a vehicle of the class that that person is authorized to drive under the licence he or she holds.

††††† 54.
A person shall not employ, authorize or permit another person to drive a motor vehicle owned by that person or under that person's control upon a highway unless that other person is authorized under this Act to drive that motor vehicle.

††††† 55.
(1)†A person who is 16 years of age or more and who is a novice driver may apply to the registrar and the registrar may issue to that person a driverís licence entitling him or her, while having the immediate possession of that licence, and in accordance with regulations made under section 55.1, to drive upon a highway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
This section does not apply to a person whom the registrar, in accordance with the regulations, considers to be eligible to apply for a driverís licence under section 46.

††††††††††††
(3)†
An accompanying driver or another person who is the owner of, is in possession or control of or who occupies a motor vehicle while it is being driven by a novice driver who holds a driverís licence, shall not permit the novice driver to drive the motor vehicle on a highway in contravention of conditions and restrictions imposed upon the novice driver by regulations made under section 55.1.

†† 55.1
(1)†The minister may make regulations in respect of novice drivers

††††††††††††
(a)†
defining the terms "accompanying driver" and "novice driver" for the purpose of this Act and the regulations;

††††††††††††
(b)†
prescribing driverís licences of different classes and levels for novice drivers;

††††††††††††
(c)†
prescribing categories of driverís licences for novice drivers which differ from licences for drivers who are not novice drivers;

††††††††††††
(d)†
prescribing the qualifications and requirements for accompanying drivers;

††††††††††††
(e)†
requiring novice drivers with driverís licences of any category, class or level to be accompanied, while driving, by an accompanying driver;

††††††††††††
(f)†
respecting qualifications, examinations, age and experience required to permit the registrar to waive the requirement to obtain a driverís licence as a novice driver;

††††††††††††
(g)†
respecting practical and written driving examinations and mental and physical, including ophthalmic and auditory examinations for applications for driverís licences of any category, class or level for novice drivers;

††††††††††††
(h)†
prescribing the length of time or the method of determining the length of time during which a person shall be a novice driver or shall be restricted to any category or level of driverís licence for novice drivers;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
prescribing circumstances under which the driverís licence of a novice driver and of an accompanying driver shall be cancelled or suspended and the length of the cancellation or suspension and prescribing the requirements for the reinstatement of, reapplication for and reissuing of suspended and cancelled driverís licences of novice drivers and accompanying drivers;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
prescribing circumstances under which a novice driver may be required to attend before the registrar or an examiner for an interview and the examination or examinations that may be required;

††††††††††††
(k)†
prescribing circumstances under which a novice driver may be required to complete an approved driver education program and to produce evidence with regard to successful completion of an approved driver education program;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
respecting the approval of driver education programs and courses which make up those programs and the requirements for instructors of those programs;

††††††††††
(m)†
prescribing modifications to the demerit point system prescribed under paragraph 186(h) as it applies to novice drivers and exempting novice drivers or a category, class or level of driverís licence for novice drivers from provisions of the demerit point system;

††††††††††††
(n)†
prescribing conditions and restrictions that shall apply to a category, class or level of driverís licence for novice drivers;

††††††††††††
(o)†
prescribing markers or identifying devices to be displayed on or in motor vehicles driven by novice drivers or novices drivers with driverís licences of any category, class or level and governing the conditions of their use and the manner of displaying them; and

††††††††††††
(p)†
exempting novice drivers or novice drivers with a driverís licence of any category, class or level from a requirement under this Part and a regulation and prescribing conditions for the exemption.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, in a regulation made under this section, the minister may prescribe penalties for a contravention of the regulations.

††††† 56.
(1)†A person shall not rent a motor vehicle to a person who does not hold a valid and existing driver's licence issued under this Act or the laws of a jurisdiction outside the province.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person shall not rent a motor vehicle to a person who is not authorized under this Act to drive it.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person shall not rent a motor vehicle to another person unless he or she has inspected that other person's driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person who rents a motor vehicle to other persons shall keep a record which shall show

††††††††††††
(a)†
the registration number of the motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the name, permanent address and temporary address of each person to whom the motor vehicle is rented; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
the number of the driver's licence held by each person to whom the motor vehicle is rented and the date and place of issue of the licence, and the record shall be open to inspection by a traffic officer or inspector.

††††† 57.
Where the driver's licence of a person is lost or becomes mutilated or illegible, the person to whom the licence was issued shall notify the registrar who may, on payment of the fee prescribed by the minister, issue a duplicate or substitute a new licence.

††††††††††††
(a)†
defaces or alters a driver's licence or displays or permits to be displayed or possesses a driver's licence which is fictitious or has been defaced, altered, cancelled or suspended;

††††††††††††
(b)†
lends to or permits the use of by another of a driver's licence issued to the person so lending or permitting the use of the licence;

††††††††††††
(c)†
displays or represents as the person's own a driver's licence not issued to that person;

††††††††††††
(d)†
fails or refuses to surrender to the registrar or to a traffic officer or inspector upon demand a driver's licence which has been suspended or cancelled; or

††††††††††††
(e)†
gives a false or fictitious name or gives a false address in an application for a driver's licence or for a renewal or duplicate of a licence or makes a false statement or conceals a material fact in the application or in a statement made or in giving information to the registrar for a purpose in connection with this Part.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A peace officer who, in the course of carrying out his or her duties as a peace officer, displays or has possession of a fictitious driver's licence does not commit an offence contrary to subsection (1).

††††† 60.
Where a person is charged under this Act or the regulations or under the Criminal Code
arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, the driver's licence shall, where the court before whom the person is charged so directs and after a hearing where it is determined that a licence suspension is appropriate, be suspended before the determination of the charge against the person and the person shall immediately deliver the licence to the court and the court shall hold the licence until the determination of the charge against the person.

60.01
(1)†Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code
a

††††††††††††
(a)†
driver of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
person who has care or control of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
novice driver of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle

provides a sample of his or her breath which, on analysis by an approved screening device as defined in section 254 of the Criminal Code,
indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is an amount referred to in subsection (2), the peace officer shall request the person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to surrender his or her driverís licence, and that person shall immediately surrender his or her driverís licence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
For the purpose of subsection (1), the proportion of alcohol for

††††††††††††
(a)†
a driver or person who has care or control of a motor vehicle is 50 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a novice driver or a novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle is more than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where an analysis of the breath of a person is made under subsection (1) and it indicates that the proportion of alcohol in that personís blood is an amount referred to in subsection (2), the peace officer who made the demand under subsection (1) shall advise the person of his or her right to a further analysis under subsection (4).

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where an analysis of the breath of a person is made under subsection (1) and indicates that the proportion of alcohol in that personís blood is an amount referred to in subsection (2), the person may require a further analysis to be performed in the manner provided in subsection (5), in which case the result obtained on the second analysis governs and a revocation and suspension resulting from an analysis under subsection (1) continues or terminates accordingly.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code
, the

††††††††††††
(a)†
driver of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
person who has care or control of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
novice driver of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle

provides a sample of his or her breath which, on analysis by an approved instrument as defined in section 254 of the Criminal Code
indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is more than the amount referred to in subsection (6), the peace officer shall request the person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to surrender his or her licence, and that person shall immediately surrender his or her driverís licence.

††††††††††††
(6)†
For the purpose of subsection (5), the proportion of alcohol for a person referred to in paragraph (5)(a) to (d) shall be the appropriate proportion referred to in subsection (2).

††††††††††††
(7)†
Where, upon a demand of a peace officer under section 254 of the Criminal Code
the

††††††††††††
(a)†
driver of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
person who has care or control of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
novice driver of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle

fails or refuses to comply with the demand, the peace officer shall request the person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to surrender his or her driverís licence, and that person shall immediately surrender his or her driverís licence.

††††††††††††
(8)†
It shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that a screening device issued for the purpose of subsection (1) has been calibrated to correctly indicate the proportion of alcohol in a personís blood.

60.02
Where a peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the ability of a

††††††††††††
(a)†
driver of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
person who has care or control of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
novice driver of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle

to operate a motor vehicle is impaired by a drug, or a combination of a drug or alcohol, the peace officer shall request the person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to surrender his or her driverís licence and that person shall immediately surrender his or her driverís licence.

60.03
(1)†Upon a request being made under subsection 60.01(1) or (5) or section 60.1, whether or not the driver surrenders his or her driverís licence to the peace officer, his or her driverís licence or driving privileges are suspended

††††††††††††
(a)†
for a period of 7 days from the time the request is made, where the driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of his or her breath or where the analysis under subsection 60.01(1) or (5) indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is 50 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period of 90 days commencing on the fourteenth day after the expiration of the 7 day suspension, where the driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of his or her breath or where the analysis under subsection 60.01(1) or (5) indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is 80 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Upon a request being made under subsection 60.01(7) or section 60.02 whether or not the driver surrenders his or her driver's licence to the peace officer, his or her driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended

††††††††††††
(a)†
for a period of 7 days from the time the request is made where the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the ability of the driver or person who has the care or control of the vehicle is impaired by a drug, or a combination of a drug and alcohol, or where he or she fails or refuses to comply with a demand under section 254 of the Criminal Code
; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period of 90 days beginning on the fourteenth day after the expiry of the 7 day suspension, where the driver fails or refuses to comply with a demand made on him or her under section 254 of the Criminal Code
.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Upon a request being made under subsection 60.01(1), (5) or (7) or section 60.02, whether or not the novice driver surrenders his or her driverís licence to the peace officer, his or her driverís licence or driving privileges shall be considered to be suspended by the registrar for a period of

††††††††††††
(a)†
2 months for the first occasion upon which a request is made under subsection 60.01(1), (5) or (7) or section 60.02;††

††††††††††††
(b)†
4 months for the second occasion upon which a request is made under subsection 60.01(1), (5) or (7) or section 60.02; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
6 months for a subsequent occasion upon which a request is made under subsection 60.01(1), (5) or (7) or section 60.02†

and, following the expiry of a suspension under paragraphs (a), (b) or (c), a novice driver may apply to the registrar to have his or her driverís licence reinstated commencing at the start of the level and class of driverís licence held by that novice driver at the time when his or her licence was suspended subject to a fee and in accordance with conditions and requirements which the registrar may impose upon the licence.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Notwithstanding subsection (3), where a novice driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of his or her breath or the analysis under subsection 60.01(1) or (5) indicates that the proportion of alcohol in the novice driver's blood is 80 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, the novice driver's licence or driving privileges shall be suspended by the registrar for a minimum period of 90 days and the procedure for reinstatement set out in subsection (3) applies.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Notwithstanding subsection (3), upon a request being made under section 60.02, whether or not the novice driver surrenders his or her driver's licence to the peace officer, his or her driver's licence or driving privileges shall be suspended by the registrar for a period of 90 days where the novice driver fails or refuses to comply with a demand made on the novice driver under section 254 of the Criminal Code
, and the procedure for reinstatement set out in subsection (3) applies.

60.04
(1)†Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code

††††††††††††
(a)†
a driver or a person who has care or control of a motor vehicle provides a sample of his or her blood which on analysis indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood at the time the sample was given was 50 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, his or her driverís licence or driving privileges are suspended for a period of 7 days beginning on the fourteenth day following his or her receipt of a copy of the certificate of analysis; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a novice driver or a novice driver with care or control of a motor vehicle provides a sample of his or her blood which on analysis indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood at the time the sample was given was greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, his or her driverís licence or†
driving privileges are suspended for the period set out in 60.03(3)(a),(b) or (c), whichever is applicable, beginning on the fourteenth day following his or her receipt of a copy of the certificate of analysis and the procedure for reinstatement in 60.03(3) applies.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where upon the demand of a peace officer under section 254 of the Criminal Code
a

††††††††††††
(a)†
driver of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
person who has care or control of a motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
novice driver of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
novice driver who has care or control of a motor vehicle

provides a sample of his or her blood which on analysis indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood at the time the sample was given was 80 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, his or her driverís licence or driving privileges are suspended for a period of 90 days beginning on the fourteenth day following the expiry of the period of suspension under subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(3)†
A 7 day suspension shall be served concurrently with a prior unexpired suspension.†

††††††††††††
(4)†
A 90 day suspension shall be served concurrently with a suspension under section 65 and consecutively to another unexpired suspension.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where under section 60.01, 60.02 or 60.1 the driverís licence or driving privileges of a driver or novice driver are suspended, the peace officer who requested the surrender of the driverís licence shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
keep a record of the driverís licence or driving privileges suspended with the name and address of the driver or novice driver;

††††††††††††
(b)†
provide the driver or novice driver whose driving privileges are suspended with a notice which shall include the time from which the suspension takes effect, the length of the period during which his or her driverís licence is suspended, if known, and shall indicate that the registrar shall inform the novice driver of when he or she may apply for a driverís licence and that notice shall, where the driver or novice driver surrenders his or her driverís licence, constitute a receipt of that driverís licence; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
notify the registrar of the suspension of the driverís or novice driverís licence or driving privileges.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Upon the termination of a 7 day suspension under section 60.03 or this section, the driverís licence shall, if it was surrendered to a peace officer, be returned to the driver at the address shown on the driverís licence or to another address requested by the driver.

†† 60.1
Where a person is charged with an offence under section 253, 254 or 255 of the Criminal Code
, or a procedure is taken pending the laying of a charge to assure the personís attendance in court on the charge, a peace officer shall request a person to surrender his or her driverís licence.

†† 60.3
(1)†Where, under sections 60.01 to 60.04 and 60.1, the driver's licence or driving privileges of a driver are suspended, and the motor vehicle which the driver was driving at the time is in a location from which, in the opinion of the peace officer who requested the surrender of the driver's licence or driving privileges, it should be removed, and there is no person with a driver's licence easily available to remove the motor vehicle with the consent of the driver, the peace officer may remove the motor vehicle or cause it to be removed to a nearby area where parking is permitted and notify the driver of its location.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a peace officer requests assistance to remove a motor vehicle under subsection (1), the costs and charges incurred in moving or storing the vehicle, or both, are the responsibility of the driver whose driver's licence or driving privileges has been suspended.

††
60.5
(1)†Where a peace officer has brought a novice driver to a stop under the authority of this Act, and the peace officer reasonably suspects that the accompanying driver has alcohol in his or her body, the peace officer may demand that the accompanying driver immediately provide a sample of breath into an approved screening device as defined in section 254 of the Criminal Code
as if he or she was the person operating the motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under subsection (1), an accompanying driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of breath or provides a sample of breath which on analysis by an approved screening device, as defined in section 254 of the Criminal Code
, indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her body is greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, the peace officer may direct the novice driver not to drive a motor vehicle on a highway while an accompanying driverís body has greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood and shall request that the accompanying driver surrender his or her driverís licence.

††††††††
(2.1)†
Where a peace officer has brought a novice driver to a stop under the authority of this Act and the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the ability of the accompanying driver to operate a motor vehicle is impaired by a drug, or a combination of a drug and alcohol, the peace officer may direct the novice driver not to drive the motor vehicle on a highway and shall request the accompanying driver to surrender his or her driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where analysis of the breath of an accompanying driver under subsection (2) registers the presence of alcohol as described in that subsection, the peace officer may demand that the accompanying driver provide a sample of his or her breath and where the accompanying driver provides that sample, which, on analysis by an instrument approved as suitable for the purpose of section 254 of the Criminal Code
, indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, the peace officer may direct the novice driver not to drive a motor vehicle on a highway while an accompanying driverís body has greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, and shall request that the accompanying driver surrender his or her driverís licence.

††††††††
(3.1)†
Where upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code
, an accompanying driver fails or refuses to comply with the demand made on that driver, the peace officer may direct the novice driver not to drive the vehicle on a highway and shall request the accompanying driver to surrender his or her driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(4)†
The direction under this section to a novice driver not to drive a motor vehicle on a highway is intended to ensure that novice drivers acquire experience and develop or improve safe driving skills in controlled conditions and to safeguard the licensee and the public and does not constitute an alternative to any proceeding or penalty arising from the same circumstances or around the same time.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Upon a request being made under subsection (2) or (3), whether or not the accompanying driver surrenders his or her driverís licence to the peace officer, his or her driverís licence or driving privileges are suspended

††††††††††††
(a)†
for a period of 7 days from the time the request is made, where the accompanying driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of his or her breath or where the analysis under subsection (2) or (3) indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is greater than 0 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period of 90 days commencing on the fourteenth day after the expiration of the 7 day suspension, where the accompanying driver fails or refuses to provide a sample of his or her breath or where the analysis under subsection (2) or (3) indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood is 80 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

††††††††
(5.1)†
Upon a request being made under subsection (2.1) or (3.1), whether or not the accompanying driver surrenders his or her driver's licence to the peace officer, his or her driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended

††††††††††††
(a)†
for a period of 7 days from the time the request is made where the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the ability of the accompanying driver is impaired by a drug, or a combination of a drug and alcohol, or where he or she fails or refuses to comply with a demand under section 254 of the Criminal Code
; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period of 90 days beginning on the fourteenth day after the expiry of the 7 day suspension where the accompanying driver fails or refuses to comply with a demand made on him or her under section 254 of the Criminal Code
.

††††††††
(5.2)†
Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code
, an accompanying driver provides a sample of his or her blood which on analysis indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood at the time the sample was given was greater than 0 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, his or her driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended for a period of 7 days beginning on the fourteenth day following his or her receipt of a copy of the certificate of the analysis.

††††††††
(5.3)†
Where, upon demand of a peace officer made under section 254 of the Criminal Code
, an accompanying driver provides a sample of his or her blood which on analysis indicates that the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood at the time the sample was given was 80 milligrams or more of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, his or her driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended for a period of 90 days beginning on the fourteenth day following the expiry of the period of suspension under subsection (5.2).

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where an accompanying driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended under subsection (5) or (5.1) the peace officer shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
provide the driver whose driver's licence or driving privileges are suspended with a notice including the time from which the suspension takes effect and the length of the period during which his or her driver's licence is suspended, and where the driver surrenders his or her licence that notice constitutes a receipt of that surrender;

††††††††††††
(b)†
notify the registrar of the name of the accompanying driver, his or her address and the details of the suspension; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
inform the accompanying driver of how he or she may collect his or her driver's licence after the expiration of the 7 day suspension.

††††† 61.
(1)†A court which convicts a person for an offence committed under this Act or the regulations shall transmit to the registrar a report setting out the nature of the conviction and the circumstances of the offence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person who is the holder of a driverís licence shall immediately deliver the licence to the court upon being convicted of an offence under section 220, 221, 236, 249, 252, 253, 254, 255, 259, 335 or another provision of the Criminal Code
involving the use of a motor vehicle or in the commission of which a motor vehicle was used.

††††††††††††
(3)†
[Rep. by 1994 c18 s7]

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where a licence has been delivered to the court under subsection (2), the court shall transmit the licence to the registrar together with a report setting out the nature of the conviction and the circumstances of the offence.

††††† 62.
(1)†Where a person has been convicted of an offence under section 130 of the National Defence Act
(Canada) by reason that the person contravened section 221, 222, 236, 249, 252, 253, 254 or 255 of the Criminal Code
the registrar may by order in writing suspend that person's driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
For the purpose of this section "driver's licence" means a Canadian Forces Europe Driver's Licence to operate a private motor vehicle issued under the authority of the Department of National Defence (Canada
).

††††† 63.
(1)†The registrar may by written order suspend or cancel a driver's licence for serious violation of this Act or the regulations by the licensee or upon being satisfied of the unfitness, physical or otherwise, of the licensee or for another reason appearing to the registrar to be sufficient.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar shall by order in writing cancel the driver's licence of a novice driver who has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations which involved the use of a motor vehicle in motion.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the registrar may suspend or cancel a driver's licence for serious violation of this Act or the regulations only after the registrar, or a representative of the registrar appointed for the purpose, has held a hearing to determine if a suspension or cancellation is appropriate and the driver may be represented at that hearing either personally or by legal counsel.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Subsection (3) does not apply to a suspension of a driver's licence arising from an accumulation of demerit points under a demerit point system established by the regulations or where the registrar is satisfied of the unfitness, physical or otherwise, of a licensee.

††††† 64.
(1)†The registrar shall by written order suspend or cancel the driverís licence of a person who

††††††††††††
(a)†
has obtained the licence as the result of perjury or the making of a false affidavit or statement to the registrar; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
has been convicted of an offence committed anywhere in Canada
under section 335 of the Criminal Code
,

for a period of not less than

††††††††††††
(c)†
3 months in the case of a first conviction; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
6 months in the case of a subsequent conviction entered within 2 years of the first conviction.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a person who has previously been convicted of an offence mentioned in subsection (1) is convicted of the same or another offence mentioned in subsection (1), the 2nd and each subsequent conviction for those offences shall be considered to be a conviction for a subsequent offence for the purpose of paragraph (1)(b).

†† 64.1
(1)†Upon receiving direction from the Director of Support Enforcement under subsection 53(2) or 53(4) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006
, the Registrar shall, with respect to the person named in the direction and in accordance with the direction

††††††††††††
(a)†
by written order, suspend, cancel or refuse to renew the person's driver's licence; or

††††††††††††
(2)†
Upon receiving direction from the Director of Support Enforcement under subsection 53(5) or 53(6) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006,
the Registrar shall, with respect to the person named in the direction and in accordance with the direction

††††††††††††
(a)†
reinstate a driver's licence suspended or cancelled under this section; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
revoke conditions imposed on a driver's licence under this section.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The Registrar shall reinstate a driver's licence suspended or cancelled, or revoke conditions imposed on a driver's licence in accordance with an order of a court under subsection 53(9) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006
.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Notwithstanding subsection (2) or (3), the Registrar shall not reinstate a driver's licence under this section unless the Registrar is satisfied that the person meets all the requirements for the issuance of a driver's licence.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person who holds a driver's licence which has been restricted under this section and drives a motor vehicle in contravention of any restriction imposed by the Registrar commits an offence.

††††† 65.
(1)†The registrar shall by written order suspend or cancel the driver's licence or driving privileges of a person who has been convicted of an offence committed anywhere in Canada under section 220, 221, 236, 249, 252, 253, 254, 255, 259 or another provision of the Criminal Code
which involves the use of a motor vehicle or in the commission of which a motor vehicle was used,

††††††††††††
(a)†
for a period of 12 months in the case of a first conviction;

††††††††††††
(b)†
for a period of 36 months in the case of a second conviction entered within 10 years after the first conviction;

††††††††††††
(c)†
for a period of 60 months in the case of a third conviction entered within 10 years after the first conviction; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
for life in the case of a fourth and subsequent conviction entered within 10 years after the first conviction.

††††††††
(1.1)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the registrar shall by written order suspend or cancel the driver's licence or driving privileges of a person who has been convicted of an offence committed anywhere in Canada

††††††††††††
(a)†
under subsection 255(2) of the Criminal Code
, for a period of 10 years; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
under subsection 255(3) of the Criminal Code
, for life.

††††††††
(1.2)†
A person whose driver's licence or driving privileges have been suspended or cancelled under subsection (1.1) may apply to the registrar to reinstate his or her driver's licence or driving privileges after

††††††††††††
(a)†
5 years from the date of the suspension or cancellation, where the suspension or cancellation was done under paragraph (1.1)(a); or

††††††††††††
(b)†
10 years from the date of the suspension or cancellation, where the suspension or cancellation was done under paragraph (1)(d) or (1.1)(b),

and the registrar may, reinstate the driver's licence or driving privileges subject to a fee and in accordance with conditions that the registrar may impose upon the licence, including

††††††††††††
(c)†
the use of an ignition interlock device in accordance with regulations made under section 186; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
participation in a program for assessment and treatment in relation to the consumption of alcohol or drugs.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a person who has previously been convicted of an offence mentioned in subsection (1) is convicted of the same or another offence mentioned in subsection (1), the 2nd and each subsequent conviction for those offences shall be considered to be a conviction for a subsequent offence for the purpose of paragraphs (1)(b) and (c).

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (1.1), where a judge makes an order prohibiting a person from operating a motor vehicle for a greater period than that outlined in this section, the registrar shall impose the same period of suspension as the judge has imposed and the person is not eligible to apply for reinstatement under subsection (1.2) until that period of suspension has expired.

††††† 67.
Where a person is convicted of more than one of the offences mentioned in subsection 64(1)†or 65(1)†and the offences arise out of the same incident, the periods of suspension or cancellation of a driverís licence for all those offences shall run concurrently from the date of the first conviction.

††††† 69.
(1)†The suspension or cancellation of a driverís licence under section 64 or 65 has effect from the date of the conviction and the suspension or cancellation of a driverís licence under section 68 has effect on a date determined by the registrar.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), where a 2nd or subsequent suspension occurs before the initial suspension or cancellation has expired, the second or subsequent suspension shall be in addition to the period of suspension or cancellation imposed initially under section 64, 65 or 68 and shall begin upon expiration of the previous period of suspension or cancellation.

††††† 70.
(1)†Notwithstanding section 69, where an appeal is registered against conviction, the suspension or cancellation of a driver's licence under section 64, 65 or 68 shall not have effect until the appeal is heard and a judgement rendered on the appeal.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where an appeal referred to in subsection (1) is dismissed, the part of the suspension or cancellation remaining at the time notice of appeal is given shall be served after the decision on the appeal is returned.

††††† 71.
(1)†Notwithstanding section 67, where a person whose driverís licence has been suspended or cancelled, during the period of suspension or cancellation

††††††††††††
(a)†
obtains a licence as a result of perjury or the making of a false affidavit or statement to the registrar; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
is convicted of an offence referred to in section 64, 65 or 68,

the further period of suspension or cancellation shall begin after the end of the previous period of suspension or cancellation.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a licence that has been suspended or cancelled expires before the period of suspension or cancellation expires, the registrar shall not issue a driver's licence to the person whose licence was suspended or cancelled until after the expiration of the period of suspension or cancellation.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The registrar may

††††††††††††
(a)†
upon the conviction of a non-resident for an offence under this Act or the regulations, or for an offence committed anywhere in Canada under section 220, 221, 236, 249, 252, 253, 254, 255, 259, 335 or another provision of the Criminal Code
which involves the use of a motor vehicle or in the commission of which a motor vehicle was used; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
upon a suspension or cancellation of the driverís licence of a non-resident,

forward a report of the conviction, suspension or cancellation to the administrator of motor vehicle laws in the jurisdiction where the non-resident lives.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where the registrar receives evidence showing that the privileges of a person to drive a motor vehicle have been suspended or cancelled under a law of a jurisdiction outside the province, the tenor of which the registrar considers to be similar to section 64, 65 or 68, the registrar may, by written order, cancel the driver's licence granted to that person under this Act, and that driver's licence shall remain suspended or cancelled while the same privileges remain suspended or cancelled in that jurisdiction, except in the case of a person issued a driver's licence in the province whose driving privileges were subsequently suspended or cancelled in the province for a period of time which has expired, in which case the registrar may issue a driver's licence despite the fact a jurisdiction outside the province may have imposed a longer period of suspension or cancellation for the same offence which has not yet expired.

††††††††††††
(5)†
[Rep. by 2005 c46 s2]

††††††††††††
(6)†
[Rep. by 2005 c46 s2]

††††††††††††
(7)†
When the registrar has suspended the driver's licence of a person for an offence other than one contrary to the Criminal Code
and in the registrar's opinion the person should undergo and pass a road test, before that suspension is lifted, the registrar may, notwithstanding

††††††††††††
(a)†
that the person's licence has been suspended; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
that the person's licence has been suspended and subsequently lapsed or expired

permit the person to undergo a road test and may reinstate the licence of a person referred to in paragraph (b) at the time considered by the registrar to be appropriate as if his or her licence had not expired.

††††† 72.
(1)†The registrar or peace officer shall notify the holder of a driver's licence when that licence is suspended or cancelled and the holder shall immediately, where ordered to do so by the registrar or peace officer, return the licence to the registrar and the registrar may instruct an inspector or a traffic officer to take possession of the licence and deliver it to the registrar.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A traffic officer may take possession of a driver's licence that has been defaced or altered or which he or she has reason to suspect was not issued to the holder or, although issued to the holder, was obtained by false pretences or which is being used contrary to this Act or the regulations and deliver it to the registrar who shall hold it pending further investigation of the use of the licence.

††††† 73.
(1)†A person whose driver's licence has been suspended or cancelled or who, while prohibited from driving a motor vehicle or while disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence, applies for or obtains the issue to him or her or has possession of a driver's licence is guilty of an offence.

††††† 75.
(1)†A person shall not operate, or, being the owner, allow another person to operate, a motor vehicle on a highway unless there is in force in respect of the motor vehicle a policy of insurance.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The owner of a motor vehicle or, where the owner is not the operator of the motor vehicle, the person operating it, shall, when requested to by a traffic officer, produce proof that a policy of insurance is in force with respect to the motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The production of a policy at a police station within 48 hours after a request is made under subsection (2) is considered to be sufficient production of proof of a policy.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A policy or a certificate evidencing a policy is proof of financial responsibility in the circumstances where that proof is required by a person to whom this section applies.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person who

††††††††††††
(a)†
obtains the registration of a motor vehicle when that motor vehicle is not insured by a policy;

††††††††††††
(b)†
fails to comply with subsection (1); or

††††††††††††
(c)†
fails to produce proof in accordance with subsection (2) that a policy is in force in respect of his or her motor vehicle,

is guilty of an offence.

††††††††
(5.1)†
Where

††††††††††††
(a)†
a second conviction has been entered against a person under paragraph (5)(b) for failure to comply with subsection (1) within 2 years of the first conviction, that person is liable,

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
to a fine set out in the Schedule,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
to imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
to both a fine and imprisonment; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a third or subsequent conviction has been entered against a person under paragraph (5)(b) for failure to comply with subsection (1) within 5 years of the first conviction, that person is liable,

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
to a fine set out in the Schedule,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
to imprisonment for a term of not less than 31 days and not more than 6 months, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
to both a fine and imprisonment.

††††††††
(5.2)†
Where a judge imposes sentences of imprisonment under 2 or more of the following provisions:

††††††††††††
(a)†
paragraph (5.1)(a);

††††††††††††
(b)†
paragraph (5.1)(b);

††††††††††††
(c)†
paragraph 43(5)(b);

††††††††††††
(d)†
paragraph 43(5)(c);

††††††††††††
(e)†
paragraph 43(6)(b); or

††††††††††††
(f)†
paragraph 43(6)(c),

the judge may, in his or her discretion, direct that the sentences be served consecutively.

††††††††††††
(6)†
In addition to the penalties set out in the Schedule for a violation of subsection (5), the court shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
report the conviction to the registrar who shall order that the identification plates and motor vehicle licence of the person convicted under that subsection be returned to the registrar; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
order the person convicted under that subsection to return the identification plates and motor vehicle licence to the registrar and advise the registrar of the order.

††††††††
(6.1)†
A court that convicts a person for a violation of paragraph (5)(a) or (b) shall report the conviction to the registrar who shall by order in writing

††††††††††††
(a)†
suspend the driver's licence of the owner of the vehicle for a period of 90 days beginning on the date determined by the registrar and set out in the order; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
direct the seizure and impoundment of the motor vehicle by a peace office or a traffic officer for a period of 90 days beginning on the day the peace officer or traffic officer takes possession of the vehicle.

††††††††
(6.2)†
Notwithstanding subsection (6.1), where the person who is convicted of a violation of paragraph (5)(a) or (b) is not the owner of the vehicle and has not been driving the vehicle with the consent of the owner, the registrar shall suspend the driver's licence of the person who was convicted instead of the owner and shall not order the seizure and impoundment of the motor vehicle, but, if the person whose licence is being suspended is the owner of a vehicle, the registrar shall order the seizure and impoundment of that vehicle for a period of 90 days beginning on the date the peace officer or traffic officer takes possession of the vehicle.

††††††††
(6.3)†
A person whose driver's licence is suspended under paragraph (6.1)(a) or subsection (6.2) shall immediately return his or her licence to the registrar.

††††††††††††
(7)†
A motor vehicle liability policy referred to in this Part shall be in the form prescribed by the Automobile Insurance Act
and approved under that Act by the Superintendent of Insurance for the purpose of this Part.

†† 75.1
(1)†Notwithstanding there is in force a policy of insurance in respect of a motor vehicle, the vehicle is considered to be an uninsured vehicle for the purpose of this Act while it is being operated by an excluded driver as defined in the Automobile Insurance Act
with respect to that policy unless the excluded driver is insured under another policy of insurance in respect of the vehicle being operated.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An operator of a motor vehicle who is named as an excluded driver under a policy of insurance under which the vehicle is insured shall, when requested to do so by a traffic officer, produce proof that the operator is a named insured under another policy of insurance with respect to the vehicle being operated.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Subsections 75(3) to (6.1) apply, with the necessary changes, to an excluded driver under this section.

††††††††††††
(b)†
in the case of an owner, in respect of each motor vehicle registered in the owner's name, by every owner

to whom this Part applies in the sum of the limit set out in subsection 21(1) of theAutomobile Insurance Act
, exclusive of interest and costs, against liability, because of an accident, resulting from bodily injury to or the death of 1 or more persons and loss of or damage to property, and that amount shall be subject to priorities of the same nature and amounts as those referred to in section 21 of the Automobile Insurance Act
.

††††† 78.
(1)†Where the owner of a motor vehicle is a corporation and being a corporation provides to the registrar a certificate issued by the Superintendent of Insurance showing that

††††††††††††
(a)†
the corporation maintains a separate insurance fund for the purpose of satisfying from that fund liabilities it may incur resulting from bodily injury to or the death of a person or damage to property occasioned by or arising out of the ownership, maintenance, operation or use of a motor vehicle by the corporation; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
in the opinion of the superintendent, the insurance fund is adequate to satisfy all those liabilities that the corporation is likely to incur, subject, for each motor vehicle registered in the name of the corporation, to the limits as to amount stated in section 21 of the Automobile Insurance Act

the registrar may waive the policy of insurance required by section 75.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a corporation in relation to which the registrar has waived the requirement to maintain the policy of insurance referred to in section 75 ceases to maintain the proof of financial responsibility referred to in this section the registrar shall immediately cancel the waiver.

††††† 79.
(1)†Where a person is insured under a policy of the type commonly known as "a garage and sales agency policy", by which that person is insured against liability to no lesser limit and matters than provided for in section 21 of the Automobile Insurance Act
the insurer that issues the policy shall,

††††††††††††
(a)†
at the time of the issue of the policy, issue and deliver to the named insured a financial responsibility card; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
on request by the named insured, issue and deliver to him or her an additional card, being a copy of the card delivered to the insured, for a person who is authorized to drive the motor vehicle owned by the insured or in his or her charge.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A card issued under subsection (1) shall be in a form prescribed or approved by the minister and shall set out

††††††††††††
(a)†
the name and address of the insurer;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the name of the insured;

††††††††††††
(c)†
the policy number;

††††††††††††
(d)†
the date upon which the insurance expires; and

††††††††††††
(e)†
the other particulars required by the minister,

and shall be signed by the person for whose use the card or additional card is issued and shall bear the number of the driver's licence held by the person at the date on which the card is issued.

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that there is in force a policy of insurance that is, in fact, not in force,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that that person is at that time maintaining in effect proof of financial responsibility as required by this Act when that is not the case, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that the person named in the card as the insured is at the time of an accident in which a motor vehicle is directly or indirectly involved insured in respect of loss resulting from that accident and occasioned by the operation or use of that motor vehicle when that is not the case; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
gives or loans to a person not entitled to have it a card issued under subsection 79(1)

††††††††††††
(a)†
a judgment for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident is rendered against a person by a court in the province or by a court in a jurisdiction outside the province;

††††††††††††
(b)†
damages have been assessed against the person; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
that person fails, within 15 days from the date upon which the judgment became final, to satisfy the judgment,

the registrar, upon receiving a certificate of that final judgment from the court in which it is rendered, shall suspend the driver's licence and vehicle licence of that person.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a driver's licence or vehicle licence is suspended under subsection (1), the licence shall remain suspended and shall not afterward be renewed, nor shall a driver's licence or vehicle licence be afterward issued to that person, until the judgment referred to in subsection (1) is satisfied or discharged, otherwise than by discharge in bankruptcy, to the extent to which financial responsibility is required to be given under section 76, and until that person gives proof of his or her financial responsibility.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon the report of the minister that a jurisdiction outside the province has enacted legislation similar in effect to subsections (1) and (2) and that the legislation extends and applies to judgments rendered and become final against residents of that jurisdiction by a court in the province, may by order declare that subsections (1) and (2) shall extend and apply to judgments rendered and become final against residents of the province by a court in that jurisdiction.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where a person to whom this section applies is not a resident of the province, the privilege of operating a motor vehicle in the province and the privilege of operation in the province of a motor vehicle registered in that person's name are suspended and withdrawn immediately by the judgment until that person has complied with this section.

††††† 82.
(1)†A judgment debtor to whom this Part applies may on notice to the judgment creditor apply to the court in which the trial judgment was obtained for the privilege of paying the judgment in instalments, and the court may in its discretion so order, fixing the amounts and times of payment of the instalments.

††††††††††††
(2)†
While the judgment debtor is not in default in payment of an instalment he or she shall be considered not in default for the purposes of this Part in payment of the judgment.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection 81(1), where a person is considered to be not in default under subsection (2) and upon providing proof of financial responsibility for future accidents under this Part, the registrar may restore the driver's licence and vehicle licence of the judgment debtor, but the driver's licence and vehicle licence shall again be suspended and remain suspended as provided in section 81 where the registrar is satisfied of default made by the judgment debtor in compliance with the terms of the court order.

††††† 83.
(1)†Where bodily injury to, or the death of, a person or damage to property in an amount apparently exceeding $500, results from an accident in which a motor vehicle is directly or indirectly involved, where the motor vehicle is or is required to be registered under this Act, the registrar, where satisfied that at the time of the accident a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance policy was not in force in respect of the motor vehicle, may suspend the driver's licence of the operator of the vehicle and the vehicle licence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding subsection (3), where a person whose driver's licence or vehicle licence is subject to suspension under subsection (1) satisfies the registrar that at the time of the accident the motor vehicle was a stolen vehicle the registrar shall not suspend the driver's licence or vehicle licence or shall reinstate it.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A driver's licence or vehicle licence suspended under subsection (1) shall remain suspended and no new driver's licence or vehicle licence in respect of the driver or motor vehicle whose licence was suspended shall be issued after the suspension unless there is proof to the registrar of financial responsibility in relation to the driver or motor vehicle to at least the limit set out in subsection 21(1) of the Automobile Insurance Act
.

††††† 84.
(1)†The registrar may upon written request provide to an insurer, surety or other person a certified abstract of the operating record of a person subject to this Part.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An abstract provided under this section shall fully designate the motor vehicles registered in the name of a person subject to this Part, and the record of a conviction of that person for a violation of the Criminal Code
or a statute relating to the operation of motor vehicles or a judgment against that person for an injury or damage caused by that person, according to the records of the registrar, and where there is no record of a conviction or judgment in the office of the registrar, the registrar shall so certify, and the registrar shall collect for each certificate a fee prescribed by the minister.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The registrar shall upon written request provide a person who may have been injured in person or property by a motor vehicle with all information of record in the registrar's office pertaining to the proof of financial responsibility of an owner or driver of a motor vehicle provided under this Part.

†† 84.1
(1)†A person aggrieved by a decision of the registrar to suspend, cancel or refuse

††††††††††††
(a)†
a permit or licence;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the registration of a motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(c)†
an application for a permit or licence,

other than a suspension or cancellation made under sections 65, 67 and 68 or as a result of an accumulation of demerit points, may, within 30 days of receipt of the decision, appeal the decision to a judge of the Trial Division by filing with the court a notice of appeal and by serving a copy of the notice upon the registrar.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The practice and procedure under the Judicature Act
and the Rules of Court relating to appeals shall apply to proceedings under this section.

††††††††††††
(3)†
At the hearing of the appeal, the judge may

††††††††††††
(a)†
dismiss the appeal;

††††††††††††
(b)†
order the registrar to restore a licence or registration cancelled or suspended by the registrar under this Act; or

††††††††††††
(c)†
order the registrar to issue a licence or permit that the registrar has refused to issue.

††††††††††††
(4)†
The filing of an appeal under this section does not affect the decision appealed from and the decision remains in force pending the outcome of the appeal.

††††††††††††
(a)†
the provisions of this Part relating to the operation of vehicles refer only to the operation of vehicles upon a highway;

††††††††††††
(b)†
this Part does not apply to persons, vehicles and other equipment while actually engaged in highway construction or maintenance work upon, under or over the surface of a highway while at the site of the work when it is reasonably necessary for the purposes of the construction or work that this Part be not complied with or be contravened; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
a person riding an animal or driving an animal-drawn vehicle upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the duties that a driver of a vehicle has under this Part.

††††† 95.
(1)†The driver of a vehicle shall drive the vehicle to the right side of the roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a vehicle upon a roadway that has a width for only 1 line of traffic in each direction shall, when meeting another vehicle that is moving, give to the other vehicle at least 1/2 of the roadway as nearly as possible.

††††† 96.
(1)†The driver of a vehicle which is overtaking another vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s22]

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall not pass the other vehicle without 1st signalling an intention to do so in the manner prescribed by sections 113 and 114;

††††††††††††
(c)†
shall pass to the left side of the other vehicle at a safe distance; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
shall not return to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the other vehicle and after having in the manner prescribed by subsection 117(3) signalled an intention to do so.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of a vehicle which is being overtaken by another vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s22]

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall not increase the speed of his or her vehicle until completely passed by the other vehicle.

††††† 98.
The driver of a vehicle which meets or is being overtaken by another vehicle and which, because of the weight of the load or the width of either of them, finds it impracticable to draw to the right shall immediately stop and, where necessary for the safety of the other vehicle and where requested so to do by the driver, that driver shall help the driver of the other vehicle to pass without damage.

††††† 99.
(1)†A driver shall not drive a vehicle to or upon the left side of the centre line of a roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle unless the left side is clearly visible and is free of oncoming and overtaking traffic for a sufficient distance to permit overtaking and passing to be completely made without interfering with the safe operation of another vehicle.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass other traffic when approaching the crest of a grade or upon a level railway crossing, curve or bridge or where highways intersect or fork, unless a traffic control device or a symbol otherwise directs or permits.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass other traffic in circumstances where the driver cannot see sufficiently far ahead to overtake and pass with safety.

†† 100.
(1)†A driver shall not drive a vehicle to the left of the centre line of the roadway except

††††††††††††
(a)†
when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction;

††††††††††††
(b)†
when the roadway to the right of the centre line is obstructed by a parked vehicle or other object;

††††††††††††
(c)†
when the roadway to the right of the centre line is closed to traffic; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
upon a one-way roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a vehicle that is proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall drive in the right-hand lane then available for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left-hand turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.

100.1
(1)†The driver of a vehicle entering a roadway in or around a roundabout shall yield the right-of-way to traffic in the roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A driver of a vehicle in a roadway in or around a roundabout shall drive to the right of the centre of the roundabout except where a traffic control device giving other directions is displayed.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A driver of a vehicle in a roadway in or around a roundabout shall yield the right-of-way to traffic travelling in or around the roundabout to the left of the driver's vehicle except where a traffic control device giving other directions is displayed.

††††††††††††
(4)†
In this section, "roundabout" includes a rotary traffic island and a traffic circle.

††††††††††††
(a)†
may drive from one lane to another where 1 or more broken lines only exist between lanes;

††††††††††††
(b)†
except as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d), shall not drive from one lane to another where that action necessitates the crossing of a solid line;

††††††††††††
(c)†
when a solid line and a broken line exist together may, with caution, cross the solid line from the lane in which the broken line is located and re-cross;

††††††††††††
(d)†
may, with caution, cross a solid line when necessary to turn left into a private road or driveway or when necessary on entering the roadway from a private road or driveway;

††††††††††††
(e)†
shall not drive from one lane to another without 1st signalling an intention to do so in the manner prescribed by subsection 117(3);

††††††††††††
(f)†
when approaching an intersection and intending to turn left or when intending to turn left into a private road or drive way shall travel in the left-hand lane available to traffic moving in the direction of the travel of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(g)†
when approaching an intersection intending to turn right shall travel in the lane nearest to the right-hand side of the roadway and may pass another vehicle travelling in the same direction in a lane to the driver's left;

††††††††††††
(h)†
shall not use the centre lane of a three-lane roadway except when passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when approaching an intersection where the driver intends to turn to the left or when that lane is designated for traffic moving in the direction of travel of the vehicle;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
except as provided in section 97, when overtaking another vehicle that is travelling in the same direction in a place where there are 2 or more lanes available to traffic moving in that direction shall in passing keep to the left of the other vehicle and to the right of the centre line;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
where a traffic-control device directs slow-moving traffic to use a designated lane when driving slowly, shall use that lane only; or

††††††††††††
(k)†
when being overtaken by another vehicle travelling in the same direction shall allow that vehicle to pass and shall travel in the lane nearest to the right-hand side of the roadway or in a manner that allows the overtaking vehicle free passage to the left in a lane available to traffic moving in the direction of the travel of the vehicle.

†† 102.
Where all or a part of a highway has been marked by a sign as a zone in which passing is prohibited or a zone limited to driving on the right-hand side of the roadway, a driver shall obey the instructions on the sign.

†† 103.
(1)†The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having regard for the speed of the vehicles and the amount and nature of traffic upon and the condition of the roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a commercial motor vehicle or a motor vehicle that is drawing another vehicle when upon a roadway outside an urban district and when following a commercial motor vehicle or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle, unless the driver intends to overtake and pass the vehicle ahead, shall, where conditions permit, have not less than 150 metres between his or her vehicle and the vehicle ahead.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The driver of a motor vehicle in a caravan or motorcade, other than a funeral procession, outside an urban district shall leave sufficient space between his or her vehicle and another vehicle or combination of vehicles to enable a vehicle to enter and occupy that space without danger.

†† 104.
Where a highway has been divided into 2 roadways by an intervening space or a physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing section constructed so that it impedes vehicular traffic, a driver shall not drive a vehicle over, across or within the intervening space, barrier or dividing section, except at a crossover or intersection established by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or a traffic authority.

†† 105.
(1)†Where on a controlled-access highway there is a sign indicating a location at which vehicles are permitted to enter, a driver shall not drive a vehicle onto the highway except at that location.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where on a controlled-access highway there is a sign indicating a location at which vehicles are permitted to leave, a driver shall not drive a vehicle from the highway except at that location.

†† 106.
(1)†Except when a traffic officer directs otherwise, drivers and pedestrians shall obey the instructions of a traffic-control signal or traffic-control device prescribed by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation in accordance with this Part.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a green light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, the driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection and facing the light or signal

††††††††††††
(a)†
may proceed across the intersection or turn left or right, subject to a traffic-control device prohibiting a left or right turn or both; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall yield the right-of-way, if turning left or right, to other traffic lawfully within the intersection or within an adjacent crosswalk at the time the light or signal is shown.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a green light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the light or signal may proceed across the roadway, subject to a pedestrian-control signal directing the pedestrian otherwise, and while so proceeding across the roadway has a right-of-way over all vehicles.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where a green light alone is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal, the driver of a vehicle approaching the light or signal

††††††††††††
(a)†
may proceed to pass the light or signal; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian still in the roadway or on a crosswalk in the vicinity of the light or signal when it is shown after the pedestrian entered the roadway or crosswalk.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where a green light alone is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the light or signal may proceed across the roadway, subject to a pedestrian-control signal directing the pedestrian otherwise, and while so proceeding across the roadway has a right-of-way over all vehicles.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where a yellow or amber light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal following a green light

††††††††††††
(a)†
the driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection and facing the yellow or amber light shall stop the vehicle at a clearly marked stop line or, if none, then immediately before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, where there is no crosswalk, then immediately before entering the intersection, unless a stop cannot be made in safety; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
notwithstanding paragraph (a), the driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection and facing the yellow or amber light and intending to turn right at the intersection may, unless a traffic-control device prohibits a right turn to be made on a yellow or amber light, with caution, proceed and turn right at the intersection, but only after yielding the right-of-way to a pedestrian referred to in paragraph (7)(b) and to a vehicle proceeding in the intersection.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Where a yellow or amber light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal following a green light

††††††††††††
(a)†
a pedestrian facing the yellow or amber light shall not begin to cross the roadway until a pedestrian-control signal or other traffic-control signal permitting the pedestrian to enter the roadway is shown; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a pedestrian on the roadway or on a crosswalk in the vicinity of the yellow or amber light when the light is shown after the pedestrian entered the roadway or crosswalk shall proceed across the roadway and has a right-of-way for that purpose over all vehicles.

††††††††††††
(8)†
Where a yellow or amber light is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal following a green light, the driver of a vehicle approaching the light shall stop the vehicle at a clearly marked stop line or, if none, then immediately before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the light or, if there is no crosswalk, then immediately before reaching the light unless a stop cannot be made in safety.

††††††††††††
(9)†
Where a yellow or amber light is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal following a green light

††††††††††††
(a)†
a pedestrian facing the light shall not begin to cross the roadway until a pedestrian-control signal or other traffic-control signal permitting the pedestrian to enter the roadway is shown; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a pedestrian still in the roadway or on a crosswalk in the vicinity of the light when the light is shown after the pedestrian entered the roadway shall proceed across the roadway and has a right-of-way for that purpose over all vehicles.

†††††††††
(10)†
Where a red light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, the driver of a vehicle approaching the signal shall stop the vehicle at a clearly marked stop line, or, if none, then immediately before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then immediately before entering the intersection, and shall not proceed until a traffic-control signal permitting the movement of the vehicle in the intersection is shown, but the driver may, after bringing the vehicle to a full stop, and yielding the right-of-way to a pedestrian and other vehicles lawfully within the intersection

††††††††††††
(a)†
turn to the right; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
turn to the left from a one-way street into a one-way street provided that those turns are not prohibited by a traffic-control device.

†††††††††
(11)†
Where a red light alone is shown at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the signal shall not begin to cross the roadway until a traffic-control signal permitting the pedestrian to enter the road way is shown.

†††††††††
(12)†
Where a red light alone is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal, the driver of a vehicle approaching the light shall stop the vehicle at a clearly marked stop line or, if none, then immediately before entering the cross-walk on the near side of the light or, if there is no crosswalk, then immediately before reaching the light and shall not proceed until a traffic-control signal permitting the driver to pass the light or signal is shown.

†††††††††
(13)†
Where a red light alone is shown at a place other than an intersection by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the light shall not begin to cross the roadway until a pedestrian-control signal or other traffic-control signal permitting the pedestrian to enter the roadway is shown.

†††††††††
(14)†
Where a solid green arrow or a flashing green arrow is shown alone or in conjunction with a red light at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, the driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection and facing the arrow

††††††††††††
(a)†
may enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by the arrow; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall yield the right-of-way to other traffic lawfully within the intersection and to pedestrians lawfully in an adjacent crosswalk.

†††††††††
(15)†
Where a solid green arrow or a flashing green arrow is shown alone or in conjunction with a red light at an intersection by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the arrow shall not begin to cross the roadway until a traffic-control signal permitting the pedestrian to enter the roadway is shown.

†††††††††
(16)†
Where a flashing red light is shown by a traffic-control signal the driver of a vehicle approaching the light

††††††††††††
(a)†
shall stop the vehicle at a clearly marked stop line or, if none, then immediately before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the light or, if none, then immediately before entering the intersection; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
having stopped, shall yield the right-of-way to all traffic lawfully in the roadway or in a crosswalk in the vicinity of the light, and proceed with caution.

†††††††††
(17)†
Where a flashing red light is shown by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the light may proceed across the roadway within the crosswalk.

†††††††††
(18)†
Where a yellow or amber flashing light is shown by a traffic-control signal the driver of a vehicle approaching the light

††††††††††††
(a)†
may proceed past the light only with caution; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall yield the right-of-way to traffic lawfully in the roadway or in a crosswalk in the vicinity of the light.

†††††††††
(19)†
Where a yellow or amber flashing light is shown by a traffic-control signal, a pedestrian facing the light may proceed across the roadway with caution.

†††††††††
(20)†
Where the word "WALK
" or a symbol for "WALK
" is shown by a pedestrian-control signal, a pedestrian facing the signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal and while so proceeding across the roadway has a right-of-way over all vehicles.

†††††††††
(21)†
Where the word "WAIT" or "STOP" or the words "DON
'T WALK
" or a symbol for "WALK
" or "STOP" or "DON
'T WALK
" is shown by a pedestrian-control signal

††††††††††††
(a)†
a pedestrian facing the signal shall not begin to cross the roadway until the word "WALK
" or a symbol for "WALK
" is shown by a pedestrian-control signal; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
a pedestrian proceeding across the roadway when the word "WAIT" or "STOP" or the words "DON
'T WALK
" or a symbol for "WALK
" or "STOP" or "DON
'T WALK
" is shown after the pedestrian entered the roadway shall proceed across the roadway and has a right-of-way for that purpose over all vehicles.

†††††††††
(22)†
Where traffic is being controlled at an intersection or a crosswalk or elsewhere by a person holding a flag or sign containing the word "STOP" or a symbol for "STOP", the driver of a vehicle approaching the flag or sign shall stop the vehicle immediately before entering the intersection or crosswalk in the vicinity of the flag or sign and shall not proceed until the person holding the flag or sign directs the driver to proceed.

†††††††††
(23)†
Where traffic is being controlled at an intersection or a crosswalk or elsewhere by a person holding a flag or sign containing the word "STOP" or a symbol for "STOP", a pedestrian if intending to cross the roadway may enter the intersection or crosswalk in the vicinity of the person holding the flag or sign and proceed across the roadway and has a right-of-way for that purpose over all vehicles in the intersection.

†††††††††
(24)†
Where a sign which has the word "STOP" or a symbol for "STOP" inscribed on it is erected at or near the intersection of 2 highways and facing the stream of traffic on 1 highway, the driver of a vehicle on the highway shall stop the vehicle before entering but as near as practicable to the driving surface of the other highway and shall then proceed with special care and give way to traffic on the other highway, but where there is a crosswalk at or in the vicinity of the sign the driver of the vehicle shall stop the vehicle before entering the crosswalk and may then proceed with caution, giving way to pedestrians in the crosswalk.

†††††††††
(25)†
Where a sign which has the words "TURN RIGHT" or "RIGHT TURN ONLY" or a symbol for "TURN RIGHT" or "RIGHT TURN ONLY" inscribed on it is erected at or near the intersection of 2 highways and facing the stream of traffic on 1 highway, the driver of a vehicle on that highway shall stop the vehicle before entering but as near as practicable to the driving surface of the intersection and shall then proceed with special care and make a right turn only in accordance with the sign and give way to traffic on the other highway.

†††††††††
(26)†
Where a sign which has the words "TURN LEFT" or "LEFT TURN ONLY" or a symbol for "TURN LEFT" or "LEFT TURN ONLY" inscribed on it is erected at or near the intersection of 2 highways and facing the stream of traffic on 1 highway, the driver of a vehicle on that highway shall stop the vehicle before entering but as near as practicable to the driving surface of the intersection and shall then proceed with special care and make a left turn only in accordance with the sign and give way to traffic on the other highway.

†††††††††
(27)†
Where a sign which has the words "NO PARKING " or a symbol for "NO PARKING" inscribed on it is erected on a highway and the part of the highway to which the sign is applicable is clearly indicated by painted red or white lines or words or markers on the highway or by additional words inscribed on the signs describing the area to which the prohibition of the sign is applicable by name or other description or by reference to another sign erected on or near the same highway, the driver of a vehicle shall not park the vehicle in the area to which the sign applies, or between the hours or during the time specified on the sign.

†††††††††
(28)†
The prohibition in subsection (27) does not apply, unless stated on the sign, to the stopping of a vehicle for the immediate taking up or discharging of passengers or for the time that may be actually necessary for the loading or unloading of goods.

†††††††††
(29)†
Where a sign which has the words "NO PARKING EXCEPT UNDER PERMIT" or a symbol for "NO PARKING EXCEPT UNDER PERMIT" inscribed on it is erected on a highway and the part of the highway to which the sign is applicable is indicated by painted red or white lines or words or markers on the highway or by additional words or symbols inscribed on the sign describing the area to which the prohibition of the sign is applicable by name or other description or by reference to another sign erected on or near the same highway, a person other than the person to whom the permit was issued shall not park a vehicle in the area to which the sign applies.

†††††††††
(30)†
Signs to indicate places where buses or school buses may stop but only for the purpose of taking up or letting down passengers and where no other vehicles may stop or park shall have inscribed on them the words "BUS STOP" or "SCHOOL BUS STOP", a symbol for "BUS STOP" or "SCHOOL BUS STOP" and may have inscribed on them additional words, figures, letters or symbols

††††††††††††
(a)†
prescribing the part of the highway to which the sign applies, by reference to another sign erected on or near the same highway or by description of the part of the highway or otherwise;

††††††††††††
(b)†
prescribing the distance from the sign, measured in a direction indicated on the sign, within which parking or stopping is prohibited;

††††††††††††
(c)†
prescribing the period within which or the hours or days during which the sign applies;

††††††††††††
(d)†
prohibiting stopping or parking on the part of the highway to which the sign applies;

††††††††††††
(e)†
indicating the ownership of buses or school buses for whose use that part of the highway is reserved; or

††††††††††††
(f)†
conveying information respecting the service provided by buses or school buses for whose use that part of the highway is reserved,

and on a highway or a section of a highway on which signs have been erected under this subsection a bus or school bus shall not stop to take up or let down passengers except at a place indicated by a sign erected under this section and no other vehicle shall stop or park at a bus stop.

†††††††††
(31)†
Signs to indicate the highway or part of a highway where the driving of a vehicle in excess of a certain maximum speed is prohibited may be erected in accordance with subsection (32).

†††††††††
(32)†
The highway or part of a highway where a special maximum speed limit applies shall be indicated by the erection of a sign at each end of the highway or part of the highway to which the maximum speed limit applies and facing the stream of traffic entering the highway or part highway, the signs having inscribed on them the words "SPEED LIMIT", "MAXIMUM" or "MAXIMUM SPEED" or a symbol for "SPEED LIMIT"' "MAXIMUM" or "MAXIMUM SPEED" and the maximum speed limit.

†††††††††
(33)†
Each sign in the form prescribed by subsection (32) may be varied by the insertion on the sign of those figures that may be prescribed by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or traffic authority for the place where the sign is erected.

†††††††††
(34)†
Signs conveying the order not to enter a highway at a particular point of intersection with another highway may be erected in those places that the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or a traffic authority appoints, the signs having inscribed on them the words "NO ENTRY" or " DO NOT ENTER" or a symbol for "NO ENTRY" or "DO NOT ENTER".

†††††††††
(35)†
Signs to close a highway or part of a highway to traffic may be erected in accordance with subsection (34) to indicate the highway or part upon which the driving of vehicles is prohibited.

†††††††††
(36)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (34) shall have inscribed on it words or symbols to indicate the period for which the highway or part is closed or that it is closed until further notice.

†††††††††
(37)†
The highway or part of the highway to which a sign erected in accordance with subsection (34) applies shall be indicated by the erection of a sign at each end of the highway or part of the highway which is closed and at all major points of intersection with the highway.

†††††††††
(38)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (34) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway or part of a highway to which the sign refers.

†††††††††
(39)†
Signs conveying the order not to proceed, or permission to proceed, from 1 highway into another by means of making a turn to the left or right may be erected on a highway, and the signs shall have inscribed on them the words or symbols for the words

NO LEFT TURN; NO RIGHT TURN; NO TURNS which shall mean no turn either way; or NO RIGHT TURN ON YELLOW OR AMBER OR RED LIGHT.

†††††††††
(40)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (39) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving a vehicle from 1 highway to another highway in contravention of the direction of the sign.

†††††††††
(41)†
Signs conveying the order to proceed in 1 direction only on a highway may be erected on the highway and the signs shall have inscribed on them the words "ONE
WAY" or a symbol for "ONE
WAY" and an arrow.

†††††††††
(42)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (41) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving a vehicle upon the highway or part of the highway to which the sign refers in a direction other than the direction in which the arrow points.

†††††††††
(43)†
Signs to limit the maximum gross mass of commercial motor vehicles on a highway or part of the highway may be erected and the signs shall have inscribed on them the words "HALF LOAD LIMIT" or a symbol for "HALF LOAD LIMIT".

†††††††††
(44)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (43) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving upon the highway or part of the highway to which the sign refers, a commercial motor vehicle if that vehicle is loaded in excess of the sum of the curb mass of the vehicle plus 1/2 of the difference between the curb mass and the maximum gross mass for which the vehicle is registered.

†††††††††
(45)†
The highway or part of the highway to which a sign erected in accordance with subsection (43) refers shall be indicated by the erection of a sign at each end of the highway or part of the highway and at all major points of intersection with the highway or part of the highway to which the signs refers.

†††††††††
(46)†
Signs to indicate places where commercial motor vehicles may be parked on a highway shall be considered to prohibit a vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle from stopping or standing

††††††††††††
(a)†
nearer to the sign than the distance; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
within the area inscribed or referred to on the sign by name or other description or by reference to another sign erected on or near the same highway.

†††††††††
(47)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (46) shall have inscribed on it the words "RESTRICTED PARKING - COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES ONLY" or a symbol for "RESTRICTED PARKING - COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY" and shall indicate in accordance with subsection (46) the distance from the sign or area within which vehicles other than commercial motor vehicles are prohibited from stopping or standing.

†††††††††
(48)†
Signs to restrict the use of a highway or a part of a highway shall be considered to prohibit a vehicle other than the class of vehicles specified on the sign from being driven over the highway or a part of it.

†††††††††
(49)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (46) shall have inscribed on it the words "CLOSED TO ALL
TRAFFIC EXCEPT" or a symbol for "CLOSED TO ALL
TRAFFIC EXCEPT" and further words or symbols to indicate the class of vehicles to which the prohibition does not apply.

†††††††††
(50)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (48) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway or part of highway to which the sign refers.

†††††††††
(51)†
Signs to restrict the use of a highway or a part of a highway to vehicles other than vehicles of a maximum gross mass in excess of that inscribed on the signs may have inscribed on them other letters, figures, words and signs and different letters, figures, words and signs may be used on different signs in different circumstances.

†††††††††
(52)†
Each sign erected in accordance with subsection (51) shall be taken as prohibiting a person from driving upon the highway or the part of the highway to which the sign refers a vehicle of a maximum gross mass in excess of that inscribed on the sign.

†††††††††
(53)†
The highway or part of the highway to which a sign erected in accordance with subsection (51) refers shall be indicated by the erection of a sign at each end of the highway or part of the highway and at all major points of intersection with the highway or part of the highway.

†† 107.
A person shall not erect or maintain upon or in view of a highway a device that purports to be, resembles or interferes with the effectiveness of a traffic-control device unless that person is authorized to do so by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or a traffic authority.

†† 110.
(1)†Notwithstanding subsection (2), a person shall not drive a vehicle on a highway or in another place

††††††††††††
(a)†
at a speed which is greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to actual and potential hazards existing on the highway or other place;

††††††††††††
(b)†
without due care and attention;

††††††††††††
(c)†
without reasonable consideration for other persons; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
where that person suffers from a disease or physical or mental disability which might cause his or her driving of a vehicle to be a source of danger to other persons.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Except where a higher or lower speed limit is prescribed by this Act or the regulations or by a traffic sign prescribed by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or by regulations made by a council, a driver shall not drive a vehicle at a speed greater than

††††††††††††
(b)†
80 kilometres an hour on paved highways other than the Trans-Canada Highway
;

††††††††††††
(c)†
60 kilometres an hour on gravel highways; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
50 kilometres an hour

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
through settlements,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
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†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
when passing a church, theatre or other place of public assembly or its grounds while people are entering or leaving it.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person commits an offence who contrary to subsection (2)

††††††††††††
(a)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 1 and 10 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(b)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 11 and 20 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(c)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 21 and 30 kilometres an hour; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
exceeds the speed limit by 31 kilometres and over.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where a person who has been convicted of an offence under paragraph (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d) is convicted within a period of 2 years of an offence under paragraphs (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d), the new offence shall be considered as a 2nd or subsequent offence for the purpose of the imposition of a penalty.

110.1
(1)†Except where a lower maximum speed limit is prescribed by this Act, a person shall not drive a vehicle at a greater speed than 60 kilometres an hour in a construction zone.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), where traffic control devices that are placed on a highway at either end of a construction zone, and facing oncoming traffic, indicates the maximum permissible speed in the construction zone, a person shall not drive a vehicle in the construction zone at a rate of speed greater than the maximum permissible speed indicated by the traffic control devices.

††††††††††††
(3)†
In this section, "construction zone" means a portion or length of highway

††††††††††††
(a)†
that is under construction, or where reconstruction, widening, marking, repairs or other work is being done, including installation of, and repairs and modifications to, equipment or facilities on or under the highway; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
that is identified as a construction zone by traffic control devices that are placed

††††††††††††
(a)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 1 and 10 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(b)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 11 and 20 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(c)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 21 and 30 kilometres an hour; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
exceeds the speed limit by 31 kilometres and over.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where a person who has been convicted of an offence under paragraph (4)(a), (b), (c) or (d) is convicted within a period of 2 years of an offence under paragraphs (4)(a), (b), (c) or (d), the new offence shall be considered as a second or subsequent offence for the purpose of the imposition of a penalty.

††††††††††††
(a)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 1 and 10 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(b)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 11 and 20 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(c)†
exceeds the speed limit by between 21 and 30 kilometres an hour; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
exceeds the speed limit by 31 kilometres and over.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where a person who has been convicted of an offence under paragraph (4)(a), (b), (c) or (d) is convicted within a period of 2 years of an offence under paragraph (4)(a), (b), (c) or (d), the new offence shall be considered as a second offence or subsequent offence for the purpose of the imposition of a penalty.

†† 111.
(1)†A driver shall not drive a vehicle at such a slow rate of speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic then existing on a highway, except where it is necessary to do so for safe operation or to comply with this Part.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A traffic officer may order a driver referred to in subsection (1) to increase his or her rate of speed, pull into the curb to allow other vehicles to pass or remove the vehicle from the highway.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person who fails to comply with an order given under subsection (2) is guilty of an offence.

111.1
(1)†A person shall not operate a slow moving vehicle on a highway with a speed limit of greater than 80 kilometres an hour.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Subsection (1) does not apply to

††††††††††††
(a)†
a bicycle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a power-assisted bicycle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
an antique motor vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
a vehicle actively engaged in

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
snow clearing or winter maintenance,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
sidewalk or highway maintenance, or

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
sidewalk or highway construction.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the minister or a person authorized by him or her may issue a special permit authorizing an operator of a slow moving vehicle involved in agricultural, forestry or other similar activities to travel on a highway, subject to the terms and conditions that the minister or person authorized by him or her considers to be appropriate.

†† 112.
A driver of a vehicle who intends to pull in to or out from a curb, slow down, turn or change directions shall not do so without giving clearly the appropriate signal in accordance with this Part.

†† 113.
(1)†A person shall not turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in the proper position upon the roadway, as required by this Act, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway, or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until that movement can be made with reasonable safety, and without giving an appropriate signal to traffic which may be affected by that movement.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A signal of intention to turn left or right when required shall be given continuously for a sufficient distance before making the turn to warn traffic.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person shall not turn a vehicle that is stopped, standing or parked into a lane of traffic unless the movement can be made with reasonable safety and without giving a left turn signal or a right turn signal, whichever is appropriate, to the intended direction of travel.

†† 114.
(1)†Where a signal is required, the driver shall give it by means of the vehicle turn signals, and in the event of there being no vehicle turn signals or their being inoperable, the driver shall give it by means of his or her hand and arm.

††††††††††††
(2)†
When a driver of a vehicle gives a signal by hand and arm, he or she shall do so from the left arm side in the following manner:

††††††††††††
(a)†
when making a left-hand turn, by extending the left arm horizontally beyond the left side of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
when making a right-hand turn, by extending the left arm vertically upwards, outside the left side of the vehicle; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
when stopping or suddenly decreasing speed, by extending the left arm diagonally downwards, outside the left side of the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A driver of a right-hand drive vehicle shall not drive upon a highway unless

††††††††††††
(a)†
the vehicle is equipped with a mechanical or electrical device of a type specified in the regulations or, if none is specified in the regulations, a mechanical or electrical device with which the vehicle was equipped by the manufacturer; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
there is prominently displayed on the rear of the vehicle in bold face letters not less than 5 centimetres in height and of a colour contrasting with that of the vehicle the words "Right-Hand Drive Vehicle".

†† 115.
(1)†A driver intending to turn right at an intersection shall approach the intersection and make the turn as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A driver intending to turn left from a two-way highway into another two-way highway shall make the turn

††††††††††††
(a)†
by driving to the right of, and as closely as practicable to, the centre line of the highway while approaching the intersection and turning; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
upon leaving the intersection, by driving to the right of, and as closely as practicable to, the centre line of the highway then entered.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where more than 1 lane of a roadway has been designated as a left or right turn lane, the driver intending to turn left or right into an intersecting roadway shall approach the intersection in 1 of those lanes and leave the intersection in the lane of the intersecting roadway that corresponds to the lane from which the turn was started.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A driver intending to turn left from a one-way roadway onto a two-way roadway shall make the left turn

††††††††††††
(a)†
by driving as closely as practicable to the left side of the one-way roadway where it enters the intersection; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
upon leaving the intersection by driving to the right of and as closely as practicable to the centre line of the two-way roadway entered.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where a driver of a vehicle intends to turn left at an intersection from a roadway on which traffic is permitted in both directions into a one-way roadway, he or she shall approach the intersection in the part of the right-half of the roadway that is nearest its centre line or on a laned roadway in the extreme left-hand lane available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of the vehicle and upon leaving the intersection shall drive as closely as practicable to the left-hand side of the one-way roadway entered.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where a driver of a vehicle intends to turn left at an intersection from a one-way roadway into another one-way roadway, he or she shall approach the intersection as closely as practicable to the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway and upon leaving the intersection shall drive as closely as practicable to the left-hand side of the other one-way roadway entered.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Where at an intersection there is a traffic-control device indicating the course to be travelled by drivers turning at the intersection, a driver shall not turn a vehicle at the intersection in a manner other than as directed by the traffic-control device.

†† 117.
(1)†A driver shall not turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in the position upon the roadway required by section 115.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A driver shall not turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway or otherwise turn the vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless the movement can be made with reasonable safety.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a signal of intention to turn right or left or to drive from one lane to another is required, a driver shall give the signal continuously for sufficient distance before making the turn to warn traffic or to make his or her intention known to a traffic officer on point duty.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where there is an opportunity to give a signal, a driver shall not stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving the appropriate signal under section 113 or 114.

††††††††††††
(a)†
a driver approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to traffic that has entered the intersection from a different highway; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
when 2 vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at approximately the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.

†† 119.
Where a driver is within an intersection and intends to turn left, he or she shall yield the right-of-way to traffic that is approaching from the opposite direction and is within the intersection or so close that it constitutes an immediate hazard, but, having yielded and given a signal in accordance with section 113 or 114, he or she may make a left turn and traffic approaching the intersection from the opposite direction shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle making the left turn.

†† 120.
Where a driver is about to enter or cross a highway from a private road, alley, building, driveway or lane, he or she shall yield the right-of-way to traffic approaching on the highway and, having yielded, he or she may proceed with caution.

†† 121.
Upon the immediate approach of an emergency vehicle giving an audible signal by a bell, siren or exhaust whistle and showing a visible flashing red light, except where otherwise directed by a traffic officer, the driver of a vehicle shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
yield the right-of-way to the emergency vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
drive immediately to a position parallel to and as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, clear of an intersection; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
stop and remain in that position until the emergency vehicle has passed.

121.1
(1)†Upon approaching an emergency vehicle or a designated vehicle that is stopped in a lane or on the edge or along the shoulder of the roadway, the driver of a vehicle travelling in the same direction shall take the safety precautions set out in subsection (2).

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
reduce speed and, if necessary, stop;

††††††††††††
(b)†
pass the emergency vehicle or designated vehicle only if it is safe to do so; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
change lanes if there is another lane for travelling in the same direction, or otherwise place as much distance as possible in the same lane between his or her vehicle and the emergency vehicle or designated vehicle, only if it is safe to do so.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The reference in subsection (1) to an emergency vehicle or designated vehicle is a reference to an emergency vehicle or designated vehicle that has flashing or rotational lights activated or other warning or safety signs or equipment in use.

††††††††††††
(4)†
In this section, "designated vehicle" means

††††††††††††
(a)†
a tow truck or other roadside assistance vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a search and rescue vehicle;

††††††††††††
(c)†
a public utility vehicle;

††††††††††††
(d)†
a municipal, provincial or federal enforcement or service vehicle;

††††††††††††
(e)†
a vehicle used by a volunteer fire fighter or emergency medical responder in the course of responding to an emergency; or

††††††††††††
(f)†
a vehicle operated under the authority of a government emergency organization in the course of responding to an emergency.

†† 123.
(1)†The driver of an emergency vehicle when responding to, but not when returning from, an emergency call or alarm, or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law may

††††††††††††
(a)†
exceed the speed limit;

††††††††
(a.1)†
proceed past a red light or stop sign; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
stop or stand.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding paragraphs (1)(a) and (a.1), the driver of an emergency vehicle shall not exceed the speed limit or proceed past a red light or stop sign unless he or she is sounding an audible signal by bell, horn, siren or exhaust whistle and is showing a flashing red light where the vehicle is so equipped.

††††††††
(2.1)†
Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a.1), the driver of an emergency vehicle shall not proceed past a red light or stop sign unless he or she stopped the vehicle at the intersection and yielded the right of way to a vehicle or pedestrian in the intersection.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The driver of an emergency vehicle who is exceeding the speed limit shall drive with due regard for safety having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including

††††††††††††
(a)†
the nature, condition and use of the highway;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the amount of traffic that is on or might reasonably be expected to be on the highway; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
the nature of the use being made of the emergency vehicle at the time.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A driver of an ambulance is considered to be responding to an emergency call from the time the driver receives the call until he or she arrives at the destination of the passenger.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A driver of a vehicle, other than the driver of an emergency vehicle who is responding to an emergency call or alarm, shall not sound a siren.

††††††††††††
(6)†
A driver of a vehicle, other than a vehicle carrying firefighting equipment returning from a fire alarm or other than the driver of an emergency vehicle who is responding to an emergency call or alarm, or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law shall not show a flashing red light.

†† 125.
(1)†Where traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation where a pedestrian is crossing the roadway within a crosswalk, a driver of a vehicle approaching the crosswalk in either direction shall yield the right of way to the pedestrian.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A pedestrian shall not leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close that it is impracticable for the driver of the vehicle to yield.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a vehicle is stopped at a crosswalk to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of a vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle.

†† 128.
(1)†Where there is a sidewalk that is reasonably passable on either or both sides of a highway, a pedestrian shall not walk on a roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where there is no sidewalk, a pedestrian walking along or upon a roadway or the shoulder of a highway shall, where practicable walk only on the left side of the roadway or the shoulder of the highway facing traffic approaching from the opposite direction and no more than 2 persons shall walk abreast on the roadway.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person shall not be on a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment or business from the occupant of a vehicle.

†† 129.
(1)†Except as provided in this section, a person riding a bicycle upon a highway has the same rights and duties as a driver.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person who is riding a bicycle,

††††††††††††
(a)†
shall not ride on a sidewalk;

††††††††††††
(b)†
subject to paragraph (a), shall ride as near as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of a roadway;

††††††††††††
(c)†
shall not ride abreast of another person who is riding a bicycle upon a roadway;

†††††††††
(c.1)†
shall wear a bicycle helmet that complies with the regulations and shall have the chin strap of the helmet securely fastened under the chin;

††††††††††††
(d)†
shall keep at least 1 hand on the handle bars;

††††††††††††
(e)†
shall not ride other than upon or astride a regular seat of the bicycle;

††††††††††††
(f)†
shall not use the bicycle to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped;

††††††††††††
(g)†
shall not carry on the bicycle an object of a kind which is of a size, weight or shape or so placed that it may interfere with the proper operation or control of the bicycle;

††††††††††††
(h)†
shall not ride a bicycle on a highway where signs prohibit its use; and

†††††††††††††
(i)†
shall not ride a bicycle on a roadway where there is a usable path intended for the use of bicycles adjacent to the roadway.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A parent or custodial guardian of a person under 16 years of age shall not authorize or knowingly permit that person to ride a bicycle unless he or she is wearing a bicycle helmet as required by paragraph (2)(c.1).

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person who is 16 years of age or older who fails to comply with or otherwise contravenes paragraph (2)(c.1) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to the penalty prescribed in the Schedule.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A parent or custodial guardian who fails to comply with or otherwise contravenes subsection (3) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to the penalty prescribed in the Schedule.

†† 130.
A person whether on foot or riding upon a bicycle, motor cycle, coaster, sled, toboggan, play vehicle or upon skates, roller skates, skis or skateboard or similar device shall not attach it or them or himself or herself by hand or other means to a vehicle upon a roadway.

†† 133.
Where a stop sign has been erected at a railway crossing, the driver of a vehicle shall stop the vehicle not less than 5 metres from the nearest rail of the railway and shall not proceed until it is safe to do so.

before crossing a track of a railway, shall stop the vehicle not less than 5 metres from the nearest rail and, remaining stopped, shall listen and look in both directions along the track for an approaching train and for signals indicating the approach of a train and shall not proceed until it is safe to do so.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a driver has stopped and is proceeding in accordance with subsection (1), the driver shall cross the railway track in a gear that will not need to be changed while crossing the track and the driver shall not shift gears while crossing.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Subsection (1) does not apply where a traffic officer or traffic-control device directs traffic to proceed.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to industrial spur railway crossings within an urban district.

†† 136.
Except when a traffic officer directs otherwise, where there is a yield sign at an intersection, the driver of a vehicle approaching the sign shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions or, where necessary for safety, stop at a clearly marked stop line or, where there is none, then immediately before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, where there is no crosswalk, then immediately before entering the intersection; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway on which the driver is driving and to traffic in the intersection or approaching on the intersecting highway so closely that it constitutes a hazard, and having yielded, the driver may proceed with caution.

†† 137.
(1)†The driver of a vehicle upon meeting or overtaking from either direction a school bus that has stopped on a part of the highway or a loading zone provided at a school or other place where parking areas are provided for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, or on which the visual signals signifying that the bus is about to stop have been activated by the driver,

††††††††††††
(a)†
where there is in operation on the school bus a visual signal as specified in the regulations shall stop the vehicle before reaching the bus; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall not proceed until the school bus resumes motion or he or she is signalled by the driver of the school bus to proceed or the visual signal is no longer activated.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a school bus

††††††††††††
(a)†
shall stop the vehicle in the roadway of the highway except where a loading zone has been provided at a school or other place where parking areas are provided for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
shall not unnecessarily delay the passing of other vehicles on the highway.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Every school bus shall bear upon the front and rear of the bus plainly visible signs containing the words "SCHOOL BUS" in letters not less than 20 centimetres in height.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Every school bus shall be equipped with visual signals as specified in the regulations which shall be activated by the driver of the school bus

††††††††††††
(a)†
30 metres in advance of coming to a stop on the highway; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
when the school bus is stopped on the highway,

for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person shall not operate a school bus upon a highway for a purpose other than the transportation of children to or from school or school-related activities unless all marks indicating that it is a school bus are concealed.

††††††††††††
(6)†
The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or overtaking a school bus that is on a different roadway.

††††††††††††
(7)†
The driver of a vehicle upon a controlled-access highway need not stop upon meeting or overtaking a school bus that is stopped in a loading zone that is a part of or adjacent to that highway and where pedestrians are not permitted to cross the roadway.

†† 140.
(1)†Where outside of an urban district it is practicable to stop, park or leave a vehicle off the roadway, a person shall not stop, park or leave the vehicle either unattended or attended on the roadway.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person shall not park a vehicle so as to obstruct the free passage of traffic on the roadway.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply when a vehicle is so disabled that it is not practicable to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving it on a roadway.

†† 141.
Where a traffic officer engaged in the control of traffic gives directions as to parking or where a traffic sign on the highway indicates the place or position in which the vehicle shall be parked, the directions of the traffic officer and the indications of the signs apply notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to parking.

†† 142.
Except where otherwise provided by a sign erected under this Act, a person shall not stop or park a vehicle within a distance of 20 metres from a bus stop or school bus stop erected under this Act or the regulations where the distance is measured from the sign in the direction from which traffic approaches the sign on the side of the highway on which the sign is erected.

†† 143.
(1)†Except with the permission of the owner of the land given either orally or in writing and without or subject to conditions, the driver of a vehicle shall not park the vehicle upon private land.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A driver who receives permission under subsection (1) shall park the vehicle in accordance with the conditions to which the permission is subject or, where there are no conditions, as otherwise directed by the owner of the land.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A driver who commits a breach of this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine prescribed in the Schedule.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A fine paid under subsection (3) shall, where a prosecution is taken and conducted in accordance with paragraph (6)(a), after deduction of the costs of the court be paid to the owner of the land.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A court shall not convict an owner of a vehicle parked in contravention of this section where the court is satisfied that the owner did not park the vehicle and that the vehicle was parked contrary to the owner's instructions.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Prosecutions under this section may be taken and conducted

††††††††††††
(a)†
by and in the name of the owner of the land on which the vehicle is parked; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
where the land in respect of which the offence was committed is owned by a church, school or hospital and whether or not the land forms part of the land on which the church, school or hospital is located

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
by and in the name of a peace officer acting on a complaint of the owner or of a person representing the owner, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
by and in the name of a municipality.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Nothing contained in this section is a bar to an action for trespass but, where

††††††††††††
(a)†
an action for trespass is taken based on an occurrence which is a breach of this section, a prosecution shall not be taken under this section; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
a prosecution is taken under this section, an action does not lie or shall not be taken for trespass based on the occurrence which gave rise to the prosecution.

††††††††††††
(8)†
For the purpose of this section

††††††††††††
(a)†
"driver" includes the owner of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
"owner", where the reference is to land and not to a vehicle, includes the lessee or occupier of the land;

††††††††††††
(c)†
"park" means to permit a vehicle whether occupied or not to remain in a stationary position; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
"person" includes a partnership.

††††††††††††
(9)†
This section does not apply to land outside a municipality unless the land is surrounded by a fence or unless the owner by sign erected on the land or otherwise indicates that the land is private or that parking on it is prohibited or restricted.

†† 144.
Except where otherwise provided in an urban district by a traffic authority or where necessary to avoid conflict with traffic or to comply with the law or the directions of a traffic officer or traffic-control device, a person shall not stop, stand or park a vehicle on a highway so that the vehicle or a part of it is

††††††††††††
(a)†
on a sidewalk or an area generally used or intended for use by pedestrians;

††††††††††††
(b)†
in front of a public or private driveway or in front of an authorized loading door designated as that by the minister or a traffic authority;

††††††††††††
(c)†
within an intersection or within 6 meters of an intersection;

††††††††††††
(d)†
within 1 metre from the point on the curb or edge of the roadway immediately opposite a fire hydrant;

††††††††††††
(e)†
within a crosswalk;

††††††††††††
(f)†
within 6 metres of the approach of a crosswalk;

††††††††††††
(g)†
within 10 metres upon the approach to a flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;

††††††††††††
(h)†
within 6 metres either side of the entrance to or exit from a hotel, church, school, public meeting place, theatre, dance hall or playground;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 10 metres of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
within 15 metres of the nearest rail of a railway crossing;

††††††††††††
(k)†
within 7 metres of a driveway entrance to a fire station or on the side of a street opposite the entrance to a fire station within 100 metres of the entrance when properly marked with signs;

†† 145.
Except where a traffic authority otherwise permits, a driver shall not stop, stand or park a vehicle on a highway other than on the right side of the highway parallel to that side and, where there is a curb, with the wheels within 30 centimetres of the curb.

†† 146.
A person in charge of a vehicle shall not permit the vehicle or a trailer attached to the vehicle to remain at rest on a highway in a position or condition or under circumstances likely to cause danger to other persons using the highway.

†† 147.
A person shall not park a vehicle upon a highway in a position that it is not visible to approaching traffic in both directions on the highway for a distance of 60 metres, except for the purpose of repairing the vehicle when repairs to the vehicle on the highway are necessary.

†† 148.
The owner or operator shall not permit to remain in a stationary position a vehicle or trailer designed and used for the purpose of preparing for sale or selling cooked foodstuffs, candy, bottled or other beverages, tobacco or cigarettes, on a highway outside a municipality or, within a municipality, on a highway which is not under the management or control of the municipality.

††††††††††††
(a)†
a vehicle is standing or parked on a highway contrary to section 140, 144, 145, 146, 147 or 148 or in a position that causes or may cause it to interfere

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
with the ploughing of or removal of snow or ice from the highway,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
with firefighting,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
with the normal flow of traffic on the highway,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
with the construction, improvement, alteration, extension, widening, marking or repair of the highway, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
with the carrying out of an undertaking of a department of the government of the province; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
a vehicle on a highway is in such a state of repair that it would or might be hazardous to other users of the highway for the vehicle to operate on the highway,

a traffic officer, an employee of the department or a person authorized generally or particularly by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation for the purpose may remove the vehicle or order the owner or person in charge of the vehicle to remove it to a place selected by the officer, employee or the person so authorized.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The owner or person in charge of the vehicle who receives an order under subsection (1) shall remove it in accordance with the order, or the officer, employee or the person so authorized by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may take the vehicle into custody and remove it and keep it until the owner pays to the department the costs and expenses and the additional amount provided by subsection (7).

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a vehicle is left unattended or apparently abandoned or without proper identification plates upon or near a highway or upon Crown land or other land owned or occupied by the Crown adjoining a highway for a period in excess of 48 hours, the minister may give oral or written notice to the owner of the vehicle, where known to the minister, to remove the vehicle and the owner shall remove the vehicle within 48 hours after the notice is given.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where the owner of a vehicle referred to in subsection (3) is not known to the minister or cannot immediately be found, written notice by the minister requiring the vehicle to be removed within 48 hours may be placed on or in the vehicle by a person authorized generally or particularly by the minister for the purpose and this shall be considered notice to the owner.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where the owner of a vehicle referred to in subsection (3)

††††††††††††
(a)†
has been given notice in accordance with that subsection and has failed to remove the vehicle in accordance with that subsection; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
was unknown to the minister or could not be found and notice was given in accordance with subsection (4) and the vehicle was not removed within the time required by the notice,

a traffic officer, an employee of the department or a person authorized generally or particularly by the minister for the purpose may remove the vehicle in accordance with subsection (1) and the vehicle shall be disposed of in accordance with subsection (6) or (8).

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where the owner of a vehicle referred to in subsection (3) in respect of which notice was given in accordance with that subsection or subsection (4) has failed to remove the vehicle within the time required by the notice, the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may remove the vehicle to a dump and abandon it there.

††††††††††††
(7)†
The owner of a vehicle removed under subsection (1), (2), (5) or (6) shall pay to the Department of Works, Services and Transportation all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the removal and in addition, except in the case of removal under subsection (6), an amount for storage fixed by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation.

††††††††††††
(8)†
Where the owner of a vehicle removed under subsection (1), (2) or (5) does not within 60 days after the date of removal pay the costs and expenses and the additional amount for storage provided by subsection (7), the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may sell the vehicle by public auction of which 10 days' notice shall be given in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the vehicle was found and the proceeds of the sale after deducting the cost of removal and the costs of and incidental to the auction and the amount for storage shall be returned to the owner where the owner is known and where the owner is not known shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

††††††††††††
(9)†
Where the vehicle referred to in subsection (8) cannot be sold at that auction it becomes the absolute property of the Crown and the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may dispose of it as he or she considers appropriate.

†††††††††
(10)†
The Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may by action in a court recover as a civil debt due the Crown from the owner the costs and expenses and the additional amount for storage referred to in subsection (7) and the costs of and incidental to an auction referred to in subsection (8).

†††††††††
(11)†
An action or other legal proceeding does not lie and may not be brought against a traffic officer or an employee of the department or against the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or a person authorized by him or her under this section in respect of anything done under this section where the action or other proceeding is not based on malfeasance or misfeasance.

†††††††††
(12)†
A traffic officer, an employee of the department or a person authorized generally or particularly by the Minister of Government Services and Lands for the purpose may remove the identification plates from a vehicle referred to in paragraph (1)(b) which has been removed from the highway under that subsection or subsection (2) and the owner of the vehicle or another person having possession of the vehicle licence issued in respect of that vehicle shall surrender the vehicle licence to the traffic officer, employee or other person who removes the identification plates.

†††††††††
(13)†
A traffic officer, employee of the Department of Government Services and Lands or other person who removes identification plates or receives a vehicle licence under subsection (12) shall immediately forward the plates and licence to the registrar with a report of the condition of the vehicle from which the plates were removed and the registrar shall not return the plates and licence to the owner of the vehicle unless and until the registrar is satisfied that the vehicle has been put in such a state of repair that it is no longer hazardous to other users of a highway.

†† 153.
Except when overtaking and passing another motor cycle, a person operating a motor cycle on a highway shall not drive it alongside another motor cycle travelling in the same direction but shall drive it behind or in front of the other motor cycle.

†† 154.
(1)†A person shall not operate or ride on a motor cycle upon a highway unless

††††††††††††
(a)†
that person is wearing a helmet that complies with the regulations and that is properly fastened; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
where the motor cycle is not equipped with a windshield that is of a height to give adequate protection to the eyes, that person is wearing a face shield, safety glasses, or goggles in the proper manner.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A passenger on a motor cycle that is being operated upon a highway shall wear a helmet that complies with the regulations and shall insure that the helmet is properly fastened.

††††††††††††
(a)†
there is in or upon the windshield, sidewings, side or rear windows or the openings for any of them a sign, poster or other nontransparent material other than a certificate, sticker or other device required by this Act or the regulations to be displayed on it or approved by the minister;

††††††††††††
(b)†
there is on the exterior or in the interior of the vehicle an ornament, decoration, novelty or other thing so located that it may obstruct the vision or distract the attention of the driver;

††††††††††††
(c)†
the windshield, sidewings, side or rear windows are so covered, either completely or partially, by snow, ice, mist, dirt or other matter that the vision of the driver is obscured or obstructed; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
the glass of the windshield, sidewings, side or rear windows or any of them or where the rear-view mirror is cracked, starred, crazed, discoloured or otherwise affected so as to reduce its transparency or impair the driver's view in any direction or under any conditions including the view by means of a rear-view mirror.

†† 157.
A person shall not drive on a highway a vehicle carrying a load which projects more than 2 metres beyond the rear-most part of the vehicle, excluding the tailboard but the minister or a person authorized by the minister to do so may give a written permit to a person applying for one, for the carrying of a load so projecting, on those occasions and subject to those conditions that shall be specified in the permit and subject to this Act.

†† 160.
(1)†A driver of a vehicle other than an emergency vehicle shall not follow an emergency vehicle closer than 150 metres or drive or park within 150 metres of the place on the same highway on which fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Unless a person has received consent of the fire department official in command, he or she shall not drive a vehicle over an unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on a highway or private driveway at a fire or an alarm of fire.

†† 161.
Where a person with a flag or sign is controlling the movement of traffic around the section of a highway being worked upon a person shall not drive or operate a vehicle other than as directed by the person with the flag or sign.

162.1
Where work is carried out on a highway or an activity is conducted that obstructs all or a part of the travel lane of a highway, the person responsible for carrying out that work or causing that obstruction shall ensure that

††††††††††††
(a)†
warning signs or other markers; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
persons with a flag or sign,

are used to control the movement of traffic around that work or obstruction and to warn persons of the section of highway that is being worked upon or is obstructed.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person who removes a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass, any substance which may injure tires of a vehicle or any other substance referred to in subsection (1) deposited upon the highway by the vehicle or as a result of the damage or wreck.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person shall not deposit or throw ice or snow on a highway unless permission to do so has been granted by the authority responsible for road maintenance in the area.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A vehicle owner is responsible for a violation of this section and shall incur the penalty that arises from that violation.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Notwithstanding subsection (4) of this section and section 210, where an owner proves that at the time of a violation of this section he or she was not the driver of the vehicle or that the vehicle was in possession of some person other than the owner without the ownerís consent, the owner shall not incur the penalties provided for that violation.

†† 166.
(1)†A person shall not operate upon a highway a bus, school bus or a vehicle registered as having a maximum gross mass in excess of 2,500 kilograms, unless there are carried in that vehicle, for the purpose of warning the travelling public of an emergency breakdown,

††††††††††††
(a)†
2 safety red triangles meeting specification that may be prescribed in the regulations; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
other warning devices of a type approved by the minister and consisting of at least 2 flares, reflectors, fuses or red lanterns, and at least 2 red flags of a minimum size of 30 centimetres by 30 centimetres.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An operator of a motor vehicle of a type referred to in subsection (1) shall, when an emergency breakdown takes place upon a highway and when the vehicle is left in a position so that a portion of it projects onto the roadway,

††††††††††††
(a)†
place the 2 safety red triangles referred to in paragraph (1)(a) upon the highway, 1 at a distance of approximately 30 metres in front of the vehicle and the other at a distance of approximately 30 metres behind the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
when that emergency breakdown takes place during daylight, place the 2 red flags referred to in paragraph (1)(b) upon the highway, 1 at a distance of approximately 30 metres in front of the vehicle and the other at a distance of approximately 30 metres behind the vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(c)†
when that emergency breakdown takes place during darkness, place 2 of the flares, reflectors, fuses or red lanterns referred to in paragraph (1)(b) upon the highway, 1 at a distance of approximately 30 metres in front of the vehicle and the other at a distance of approximately 30 metres behind the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(3)†
For the purpose of this section, "darkness" means the period from 1/2 hour before sunset to 1/2 hour after sunrise and other occasions when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible a substantial object on the highway at a distance of 60 metres and "daylight" means the balance of the 24 hour day.

†† 167.
(1)†The minister may, by order, prohibit vehicles from being driven or operated on a highway where those vehicles are not equipped with chains or winter tires or both and a person who does not comply with the order is guilty of an offence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An order made under this section may

††††††††††††
(a)†
define by reference to type, make, condition or otherwise the standard of chains or winter tires to which the order applies;

††††††††††††
(b)†
specify the road conditions which shall exist during the application of the order;

††††††††††††
(c)†
make different provisions for different vehicles or classes of vehicles;

††††††††††††
(d)†
apply without limitation as to time, or for the period in each or every year specified in the order; or

††††††††††††
(e)†
be made applicable to the area defined in the order, and different orders may make different provisions for each area.

††††††††††††
(b)†
give to a traffic officer and to anyone sustaining loss or injury and, upon request, to a person at the scene of the accident his or her name, address, the name and address of the registered owner of the vehicle where the owner is a person other than the driver, the registration number of the vehicle and show his or her driver's licence to those persons;

††††††††††††
(c)†
produce proof or evidence that a policy or a certificate evidencing a policy under section 75, is in force with respect to the vehicle upon the request of a traffic officer or a person sustaining loss or injury at the scene of the accident; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
give to a person injured in the accident reasonable assistance, including the carrying of that person to a physician or surgeon for medical or surgical treatment where it is apparent that that treatment is necessary or where it is requested by the injured person.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The driver of a vehicle that collides with an unattended vehicle shall stop and either locate and notify the driver or owner of the unattended vehicle of the name and address of the driver, the number of the driver's licence and the registration number of the vehicle striking the unattended vehicle or shall leave in a conspicuous place in the vehicle struck a written notice giving the information referred to above.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where the driver cannot locate the other driver or owner or cannot leave the notice required under subsection (2), the driver shall report the details of the collision as soon as possible to a peace officer having jurisdiction where the collision occurred.

††††††††††††
(4)†
The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to property upon or adjacent to a highway, other than a vehicle under subsections (2) and (3), shall take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property of that fact and of the name and address of the driver, the number of the driver's licence and the registration number of the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where the driver cannot locate the owner or person in charge of the property referred to in subsection (4), he or she shall report the details referred to in subsection (4) to a peace officer having jurisdiction where the accident occurred.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where an accident occurs by which a person or property is injured, directly or indirectly, owing to the presence or operation of a bicycle on a highway, the person in charge of the bicycle shall

††††††††††††
(a)†
remain at or immediately return to the scene of the accident;

††††††††††††
(b)†
give reasonable assistance; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
give to anyone sustaining loss or injury, and to a traffic officer who is present, his or her name and address and also the name and address of the owner of the bicycle, and, where the bicycle has been licensed and registered the licence or registration number of the bicycle.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Where the accident referred to in subsection (6) results in death or injury to a person or injury to property causing total damage apparently exceeding $250, the person in charge of the bicycle shall immediately make a written report of the accident and shall mail or deliver the report to the nearest peace officer or police station.

†† 170.
(1)†Where an accident results in injury or death to a person or in property damage to an apparent extent of $2,000 or more, the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident shall immediately make a written report of the accident to the nearest peace officer having jurisdiction in the area where the accident occurs.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where the driver referred to in subsection (1) is incapable of making the report required by that subsection and there is another occupant of the vehicle capable of making the report, the occupant shall make the report required to be made by the driver.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a report has not been made under subsection (1) or (2) and the driver or occupant is not the owner of the vehicle, the owner shall immediately after learning of the accident make the report.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Where the driver referred to in subsection (1) is the owner, and is alone and incapable of making the report required by that subsection he or she shall make the report immediately after becoming capable of making it.

†† 171.
(1)†A peace officer who has witnessed or investigated an accident shall immediately forward to the Chief of Police or the Officer Commanding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force in the province a written report, in a form to be prescribed by the registrar, setting out full particulars of the accident including the names and addresses of the persons involved and the extent of the personal injuries or property damage and the Chief of Police or the Officer Commanding shall send a copy of the report to the registrar and to the minister.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where a report has been made under section 169, 170 or this section, the registrar or the minister may require the driver involved or a peace officer or person having knowledge of the accident or of personal injuries or property damage resulting from the accident to provide additional information or to make a supplementary report.

†† 172.
(1)†Where a motor vehicle that shows evidence of having been involved in a serious accident or having been struck by a bullet is brought into a garage, parking station, parking lot, used-car lot or repair shop, the person in charge of the place into which the vehicle is brought shall immediately report that fact to the nearest peace officer or police station, giving the name and address of the owner or operator and also the identification plate number and a description of the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A report need not be made under this subsection (1) where the owner or operator of the vehicle is also the person in charge of the place into which the vehicle is brought and has made a report under section 169 which includes the information required under subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(3)†
A Provincial Court judge who investigates or holds an inquiry respecting the death of a person from an accident in which a vehicle was involved shall immediately upon the conclusion of the investigation or inquiry make a written report to the registrar giving the time and place of the accident, the name of the person killed and the name and address of the driver of the vehicle involved.

173.1
(1)†The registrar may release the information referred to in subsection (2) to

††††††††††††
(a)†
a person involved in an accident which was not required to be reported under this Act;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a person or insurance company that has paid or may be liable to pay damages resulting from an accident; or

††††††††††††
(c)†
a solicitor, agent or other representative of the person or company

where the registrar has received written confirmation of the accident by either of the parties involved in the manner acceptable to the minister.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The registrar may, under the authority of subsection (1), release the following information:

††††††††††††
(a)†
the identification of vehicles involved in the accident;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the name and address of the registered owner; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
the name and address of an insurance company that has issued a policy insuring a party to or a person involved in an accident, together with the policy number applicable to that policy.

†† 174.
(1)†A person involved in an accident and a person or an insurance company that has paid or may be liable to pay for damages resulting from an accident in which a motor vehicle is involved and a solicitor, agent or other representative of the person or company is entitled to the information that may appear in a report made under section 169, 170, 171 or 172 in respect of

††††††††††††
(a)†
the date, time and place of the accident;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the identification of vehicles involved in the accident;

††††††††††††
(c)†
the name and address of the parties to or involved in the accident;

††††††††††††
(d)†
the names and addresses of witnesses to the accident;

††††††††††††
(e)†
the names and addresses of persons or bodies to whom the report was made;

††††††††††††
(f)†
the name and address of a peace officer who investigated the accident;

††††††††††††
(g)†
the weather and highway conditions at the time of the accident;

††††††††††††
(h)†
[Rep. by 1993 c37 s1] and

†††††††††††††
(i)†
the name and address of an insurance company that has issued a policy insuring a party to or involved in an accident, together with the policy number applicable to that policy.

††††††††
(1.1)†
In addition to the information to which a person is entitled under subsection (1), a person is entitled to be informed whether a charge has been laid as a result of an accident in which a motor vehicle is involved.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person shall not make a false statement in a report made or purporting to be made under section 169, 170, 171 or 172.

††††††††††††
(3)†
In a prosecution for violation of section 169, 170 or 172, a certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar that a required report has or has not been made is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the facts stated in the certificate.

††††††††††††
(4)†
In a prosecution for failure to make a report required by section 169, 170 or 172 in respect of an accident the place of the offence shall be considered to be the place where the accident occurred.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person entitled to information under this section shall pay the fee to obtain it that the minister may set.

174.1
(1)†A medical practitioner licensed under the Medical Act, 2005
, a nurse practitioner as defined in the Registered Nurses Act, 2008
or an optometrist licensed under the Optometry Act, 2012
shall report to the registrar the name, address, date of birth and clinical condition of a person 16 years of age or older attending the practitioner or the optometrist for medical or optometric services who, in the opinion of the practitioner or optometrist, is suffering from a condition that may make it dangerous for the person to operate a motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An action shall not be brought against a medical practitioner, a nurse practitioner or an optometrist for complying with subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(3)†
A report referred to in subsection (1) is privileged for the information of the registrar only and shall not be open for public inspection.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A report referred to in subsection (1) is not admissible in evidence for a purpose in a trial except to prove compliance with subsection (1).

†† 175.
(1)†An inspector may weigh a vehicle on a portable or stationary weighing machine or scales and for the purpose of weighing the vehicle the inspector may

††††††††††††
(a)†
stop the vehicle by,

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
placing on or as near as possible to the roadway a sign ordering all vehicles or all vehicles of a certain class to stop for weighing, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
signalling manually to the driver of the vehicle to stop;

††††††††††††
(b)†
order the driver of the vehicle to drive and the driver shall drive the vehicle to the nearest weighing machine or scales where they are within a distance of 16 kilometres;

††††††††††††
(c)†
order the driver of the vehicle to help and the driver shall help in and facilitate the weighing of the vehicle by driving the vehicle upon the weighing machine or scales and performing the other acts that the inspector requires or considers necessary for the purpose of weighing the vehicle and its load; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
where the driver of the vehicle does not obey the order given under paragraph (b) or (c), drive or authorize some other person to drive the vehicle to and upon the nearest weighing machine or scales where they are within a distance of 16 kilometres and perform the other acts that the inspector requires or considers necessary for the purpose of weighing the vehicle and its load.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Instead of proceeding to a weighing machine or scales the mass of a vehicle and load referred to in subsection (1) may be determined by a portable weighing device provided by the inspector and subsection (1) applies to the weighing of a vehicle and load under this subsection.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a vehicle is weighed under subsection (1) or (2) and it is found that the maximum gross mass or the axle mass of the vehicle exceeds that permitted by the regulations or by a sign applicable to that portion of the highway on which the vehicle was stopped, the inspector may order the driver of the vehicle to and the driver shall remove from the vehicle so much of the load as is necessary to bring the maximum gross mass or the axle mass of the vehicle within the mass permitted on that portion of the highway.

††††††††††††
(4)†
An action does not lie against an inspector or the minister or another person in respect of damage done to a vehicle or its load or loss sustained by a person as a consequence of anything done or ordered to be done under this section where the action is not based on malfeasance or misfeasance.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person who

††††††††††††
(a)†
does not obey a sign placed or a signal given under paragraph (1)(a);

††††††††††††
(b)†
does not obey an order given under paragraph (1)(b) or (c);

††††††††††††
(c)†
refuses to have weighed a vehicle which he or she is driving or which is under his or her control or direction; or

††††††††††††
(d)†
does not remove the portion of the load of a vehicle that an inspector orders under subsection (3),

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction

††††††††††††
(e)†
in the case of a 1st offence to a fine of not less than $300 and not more than $500 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term of not less than 15 days and not more than 20 days;

††††††††††††
(f)†
in the case of a 2nd and subsequent offence to a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $700 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term of not less than 20 days and not more than 25 days; or

††††††††††††
(g)†
to both a fine and imprisonment.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Where the driver of a vehicle refuses to comply with the requirements of this section, an inspector may order the driver of the vehicle not to move the vehicle or may direct the driver of the vehicle to move the vehicle to a place of safety off the highway.

††††††††††††
(7)†
An inspector referred to in this section has and may exercise the powers of a peace officer under section 203 for the purpose of this section.

††††††††††††
(8)†
An allegation that compliance with an order under this section would or might damage the tires, wheels, axles or other part of the vehicle in respect of which the order is made is not a defence in a prosecution for failure to comply with that order.

†† 176.
(1)†A person shall not have the care and control of a motor vehicle that is equipped with or that carries or contains a device capable of detecting or interfering with radar or other electronic equipment that may be used for measuring the speed of motor vehicles.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Subsection (1) does not apply to

††††††††††††
(a)†
a motor vehicle used by a peace officer in the course of his or her duties; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
a motor vehicle used by a person in conducting a traffic survey authorized by the minister.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Where a peace officer apprehends a person operating a motor vehicle contrary to subsection (1), the peace officer may seize the device or equipment and it is forfeited to the Crown.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person shall not, without the approval of the minister, sell or offer for sale a device capable of detecting or interfering with radar or other electronic equipment that may be used for measuring the speed of vehicles.

176.1
(1)†A person shall not drive a motor vehicle on a highway while holding, or using a hand-held wireless communication device or other prescribed device that is capable of receiving or transmitting telephone communications, electronic data, email or text messages.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Notwithstanding subsection, (1), a person may drive a motor vehicle on a highway while using a device described in that subsection in hands-free mode.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Subsection (1) does not apply to

††††††††††††
(a)†
the driver of an ambulance, fire department vehicle or police vehicle;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a peace officer who is driving a motor vehicle in the discharge of his or her duties;

††††††††††††
(c)†
another prescribed person or class of persons;

††††††††††††
(d)†
a person holding or using a device prescribed for the purpose of this subsection; or

††††††††††††
(e)†
a person engaged in a prescribed activity or in prescribed conditions or circumstances.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of the use of

††††††††††††
(a)†
"child seat restraint system" means a car seat of a type described in subsection 178.1(1) required for a child of an age, height or weight described in subsection 178.1(2) that is designed for use, together with a seat belt assembly, in the restraint of a child; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
"seat belt assembly" means a device or assembly composed of straps, webbing or similar material that restrains the movement of a person in order to prevent or mitigate injury to the person and includes a pelvic restraint or a pelvic restraint in combination with a torso restraint.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person shall not operate on a highway a vehicle in which a seat belt assembly required under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act
(Canada
) at the time that the vehicle was manufactured or imported into Canada
has been removed, rendered partly or wholly inoperative, or modified so as to reduce its effectiveness.

††††††††
(2.1)†
A person shall not operate a vehicle on a highway where there are more persons in the vehicle than there are effectively operating seat belt assemblies.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person, who operates on a highway a vehicle in which a seat belt assembly is provided for the driver, shall wear the complete seat belt assembly in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A person who is a passenger on a highway in a vehicle in which a seat belt assembly is provided for the seating position occupied by the passenger shall wear the complete seat belt assembly in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner.

††††††††
(4.1)†
For the purposes of subsections (3), (4) and (6), a seat belt assembly is considered to be worn in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner where

††††††††††††
(a)†
the pelvic restraint is worn firmly against the body and across the hips;

††††††††††††
(b)†
the torso restraint, if any, is worn closely against the body and over the shoulder and across the chest; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
the pelvic restraint, and the torso restraint, if any, are securely fastened.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Subsections (3) and (4) do not apply to

††††††††††††
(a)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s27]

††††††††††††
(b)†
a person who holds a certificate signed by a medical practitioner licensed under the Medical Act, 2005
or a nurse practitioner as defined in the Registered Nurses Act, 2008
certifying that the person is

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
for the period stated in the certificate, unable for medical reasons to wear a seat belt assembly, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
because of size, build or other physical characteristic, unable to wear a seat belt assembly;

††††††††††††
(c)†
a person who is actively engaged in the collection of garbage or other waste materials which requires that person to alight from and re-enter a vehicle at frequent intervals and who, while engaged in that work, does not drive or travel in that vehicle at a speed exceeding 20 kilometres an hour;

††††††††††††
(d)†
a person under the age of 16 years;

††††††††††††
(e)†
a peace officer in the lawful performance of his or her duties, where compliance would endanger him or her or hamper the performance of his or her duties;

††††††††††††
(f)†
a peace officer who, in the lawful performance of his or her duties, is transporting a person in his or her custody; or

††††††††††††
(g)†
a person who is in the custody of a peace officer.

††††††††
(5.1)†
A person shall not operate a vehicle on a highway with a person riding on a portion of the vehicle that is not designed or normally used for carrying passengers.

††††††††
(5.2)†
A person shall not ride on a portion of a vehicle that is not designed or normally used for carrying passengers.

††††††††
(5.3)†
Subsections (5.1) and (5.2) do not apply to a vehicle participating in a parade while travelling along the parade route.

††††††††††††
(6)†
A person shall not operate a vehicle on a highway in which there is a passenger who is under 16 years of age unless that passenger

††††††††††††
(a)†
occupies a seating position for which a seat belt assembly has been provided and is wearing the complete seat belt assembly in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
is secured in a child seat restraint system in accordance with subsection 178.1(2), where the passenger is a child to whom that subsection applies.

††††††††††††
(7)†
Paragraph (6)(a) does not apply where the passenger

††††††††††††
(a)†
is the holder of a certificate signed by a qualified medical practitioner certifying that the passenger is

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
for the period stated in the certificate, unable for medical reasons to wear a seat belt assembly, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
because of size, build or other physical characteristic, unable to wear a seat belt assembly;

††††††††††††
(b)†
[Rep. by 2009 c9 s27]

††††††††††††
(c)†
[Rep. by 2007 c23 s1]

††††††††††††
(d)†
is a person in the custody of a peace officer and being transported by the officer in the lawful performance of his or her duties.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Except as otherwise provided in subsections (4) and (5), a person shall not operate on a highway a vehicle in which there is a passenger who is a child 8 years of age or under unless that child is occupying and properly secured in a child seat restraint system in accordance with the following:

††††††††††††
(a)†
a child who weighs less than 9 kilograms shall be secured in a rearward-facing infant car seat that is used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer;

††††††††††††
(b)†
a child who weighs 9 kilograms or more and less than 18 kilograms shall be secured

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
in a child car seat that is used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
in an infant car seat that is used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer, where the manufacturer's specifications permit or recommend the use of an infant car seat by a child described in this paragraph; and

††††††††††††
(c)†
a child who weighs not less than 18 kilograms and not more than 37 kilograms and who is less than 145 centimetres in height shall be secured

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
on a booster seat that is used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer, and by the vehicle's complete seat belt assembly, worn as described in subsection 178(4.1), or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
in a child car seat that is used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer, where the manufacturer's specifications permit or recommend the use of a child car seat by a child described in this paragraph.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A rearward facing infant car seat shall not be used in a motor vehicle seat that is equipped with an active frontal air bag.

††††††††††††
(4)†
Subsection (2) does not apply to the operator on a highway of a vehicle where

††††††††††††
(a)†
the passenger is the holder of a certificate signed by a qualified medical practitioner licensed under the Medical Act, 2005
or a nurse practitioner under the Registered Nurses Act, 2008
certifying that the passenger is

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
for the period stated in the certificate, unable for medical reasons to be secured in a child seat restraint system, or

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
because of size, build or other physical characteristic, unable to be secured in a child seat restraint system; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
the operator of the vehicle is a peace officer who, in the lawful performance of his or her duties, is transporting a child in his or her custody and in the opinion of the peace officer the urgency of the situation makes it impracticable for the child to wear a child seat restraint system.

††††††††††††
(5)†
The requirements of paragraph (2)(c) do not apply to the transport of a child described in that paragraph in a bus or school bus that has not been equipped with a seat belt assembly.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Notwithstanding subsection (5), the operator of a passenger vehicle designed to carry 6 or fewer passengers in addition to the operator, under a contract with a school board to carry children to and from school and school related activities, shall comply with the requirements of subsection (2).

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
for all or any of the matters referred to in subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii);

†††††††††
(c.1)†
respecting the requirement for and issuing of different classes of licence for differing categories of vehicle or use of a vehicle;

††††††††††††
(d)†
establishing a time period for which a driverís licence or registration of a motor vehicle may be considered valid after the date of payment of a prescribed fee for that licence or registration at a bank and circumstances under which that time period may be varied;

††††††††††††
(f)†
providing for the remission of fees or a part of them paid under this Act and prescribing the conditions under which they may be remitted;

†††††††††
(f.1)†
respecting the audit of dealers in order to regulate, account for and ascertain inventories of licence plates and markers issued to those dealers and to audit temporary registrations and the accounts respecting money collected for those registrations;

††††††††††††
(g)†
exempting vehicles from registration and prescribing the restrictions, terms and conditions upon which those vehicles may be exempted from registration;

†††††††††
(g.1)†
respecting the seizure and impoundment of vehicles under paragraph 75(6.1)(b), including

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
requiring that a notice of seizure be given to the driver and sent to the registrar and the owner of the vehicle, and prescribing the timing and form of this notice,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
prescribing the fees to be paid in relation to the impoundment and release of the vehicle, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
prescribing the types of fees and charges that shall be a lien on the impounded vehicle, the priority of those liens and how those liens may be enforced, including the sale or other disposal of the vehicle by the garage operator who takes and stores the seized and impounded vehicle or by the registrar, which sale or other disposal may vary according to the value of the vehicle;

††††††††††††
(h)†
providing for a demerit point system for drivers and in particular,

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
requiring the registrar to keep a record of the convictions specified in the regulations of each novice driver and driver, whether resident or non-resident, for offences under this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189 or 189.1 or for an offence under the Criminal Code
involving the use of a motor vehicle,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
prescribing the number of points which the registrar shall assess against the record of each novice driver or driver in respect of the convictions referred to in subparagraph (i),

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
requiring the registrar to give a warning notice to a novice driver or driver after a certain number of points, which shall be specified in the regulations, have been assessed against that novice driver or driver,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
requiring the registrar to request a novice driver or driver to appear before him or her or a person that the regulations may provide for after more than a specified minimum number of points but not more than a higher specified number of points have been assessed against the novice driver or driver, for an interview, with a view to helping the novice driver or driver to improve his or her driving habits,

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
providing for the suspension of the driver's licence of a novice driver or driver who fails or refuses to attend an interview referred to in subparagraph (iv) until that novice driver or driver attends and participates in that interview,

†††††††††††††††††††
(vi)†
enabling the registrar to order a novice driver or driver who attends an interview referred to in subparagraph (iv) to undergo a medical examination or driver's test or both and to suspend the driver's licence of that novice driver or driver until he or she complies with the order,

††††††††††††††††††
(vii)†
enabling the registrar to suspend the licence of a novice driver or driver as a result of the report of a medical examination or driver's test referred to in subparagraph (vi),

†††††††††††††††††
(viii)†
enabling the registrar to suspend or cancel the driver's licence of a novice driver or driver against whom the registrar has assessed a number of points specified in the regulations within a period of time specified in the regulations and providing for the period of suspension or for the period within which a driver's licence shall not be issued to a novice driver or driver whose licence has been cancelled,

†††††††††††††††††††
(ix)†
providing for the issuing of a driver's licence to a person whose licence has been suspended or cancelled under regulations made under subparagraph (viii) to operate a motor vehicle of the class specified on the licence and for conditions under which the licence may be issued or to which it shall be subject,

††††††††††††††††††††
(x)†
prescribing conditions under which the registrar may reduce the period of suspension provided for in regulations made under subparagraph (viii),

†††††††††††††††††††
(xi)†
requiring the registrar in the case of a novice driver or driver who is not a resident of the province to notify the official responsible for the administration of motor vehicle laws in the jurisdiction outside the province where that driver lives that the driver has been convicted of an offence referred to in subparagraph (i) and the number of points assessed against the record of the driver in this province,

††††††††††††††††††
(xii)†
defining probationary drivers,

†††††††††††††††††
(xiii)†
prescribing the period during which a person shall be classed as a probationary driver,

††††††††††††††††
(xiv)†
prescribing the circumstances under which the driver's licence of a probationary driver shall be cancelled or suspended and the length of the suspension,

†††††††††††††††††
(xv)†
prescribing circumstances under which a probationary driver may be required to attend before an official of the department for an interview and those examinations that may be required,

††††††††††††††††
(xvi)†
prescribing circumstances under which a probationary driver may be required to produce evidence with regard to successful completion of a driver improvement course approved by the minister, and

†††††††††††††††
(xvii)†
prescribing modifications to the demerit point system where it applies to probationary drivers and exempting probationary drivers from a provision of the demerit point system;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
providing for the seizure and impoundment of motor vehicles by a peace officer where the officer has reason to believe that a person who was operating the vehicle contravened subsection 43(6), and in particular,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
providing for the release of a stolen vehicle,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
requiring that a notice of seizure be given to the driver and sent to the registrar and the owner of the vehicle, and prescribing the timing and form of this notice,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
prescribing the period of impoundment,

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
where the owner of the vehicle was not the person operating the vehicle, enabling the owner of the vehicle to apply for early release of the vehicle where

†††††††††††††††††††††††††††
(A)†
the owner could not reasonably have been expected to know that the person who was operating the vehicle was disqualified from driving, or

†††††††††††††††††††††††††††
(B)†
the owner establishes that the impoundment of the vehicle would cause him or her exceptional hardship,

†††††††††††††††††††
(vi)†
prescribing the criteria for establishing exceptional hardship for the purpose of subparagraph (v),

††††††††††††††††††
(vii)†
enabling the owner and operator of the vehicle to apply for early release of the vehicle where the owner and operator establishes that he or she had no reason to believe that he or she was disqualified from driving,

†††††††††††††††††
(viii)†
providing for an appeal of a decision on an application for early release of a vehicle,

†††††††††††††††††††
(ix)†
prescribing the fees to be paid in relation to the impoundment and release of the vehicle, and

††††††††††††††††††††
(x)†
prescribing the types of fees and charges that shall be a lien on the impounded vehicle, the priority of those liens and how those liens may be enforced, including the sale or other disposal of the vehicle by the garage operator who takes and stores the seized and impounded vehicle or by the registrar, which sale or other disposal may vary according to the value of the vehicle;

††††††††††
(i.1)†
respecting the seizure and impoundment of vehicles that are dangerous or unfit for use, including

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
requiring that a notice of seizure be given to the driver and sent to the registrar and the owner of the vehicle, and prescribing the timing and form of this notice,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
prescribing the period of impoundment,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
prescribing the fees to be paid in relation to the impoundment and release of the vehicle, and

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
prescribing the types of fees and charges that shall be a lien on the impounded vehicle, the priority of those liens and how those liens may be enforced, including the sale or other disposal of the vehicle by the garage operator who takes and stores the seized and impounded vehicle or by the registrar, which sale or other disposal may vary according to the value of the vehicle;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
providing for the establishment of an ignition interlock program in one or more designated parts of the province allowing persons whose driver's licence or driving privileges have been suspended to apply for reinstatement under prescribed conditions including the use of an ignition interlock device, and in particular

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
providing for the payment of expenses and fees respecting the installation, use, maintenance and removal of ignition interlock devices,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
providing a method to determine whether an approved ignition interlock device is in place in a vehicle where it is required and whether it is working,

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
providing penalties for a person who drives a motor vehicle that is not equipped with an approved ignition interlock device while prohibited from doing so,

†††††††††††††††††††
(vi)†
providing penalties for tampering with or removing an ignition interlock device,

††††††††††††††††††
(vii)†
providing penalties for assisting a person with the improper use of an ignition interlock device, and

†††††††††††††††††
(viii)†
prescribing criteria for eligibility in the ignition interlock program and for the removal of an ignition interlock device once installed; and

††††††††††††
(k)†
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††††††††††††
(2)†
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, in addition to or instead of regulations made under subsection (1), adopt by reference and constitute as regulations the whole or part or provisions of a code adopted or standards fixed, with or without modification, and including amendments now or afterward made to the code or standard, by an organization acceptable to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A certificate of the minister that a document is a copy of a code or standard referred to in subsection (2) or an extract from, a modification of, or an amendment to, a code or standard is without further proof presumptive evidence of the content of that code, standard, extract or amendment.

†† 187.
(1)†The Minister of Works, Services and Transportation or the Minister of Government Services and Lands may make regulations respecting the operation of vehicles on highways and for regulating vehicular and other traffic on highways and in particular,

††††††††††††
(a)†
regulating the width, height and length of motor vehicles and trailers, and the loads which may be carried by them on highways;

††††††††††††
(b)†
regulating the maximum mass, laden and unladen, of motor vehicles and trailers and the conditions under which the masses may be required to be tested;

††††††††††††
(c)†
prescribing particulars to be marked on motor vehicles and trailers;

††††††††††††
(d)†
regulating the towing or drawing of vehicles by motor vehicles or traction engines;

††††††††††††
(e)†
prescribing the conditions under which a person who is learning to drive may drive a motor vehicle on a highway;

††††††††††††
(f)†
fixing the maximum or minimum speeds at which motor vehicles may be driven upon a highway;

††††††††††††
(g)†
regulating the use of specified highways or parts of highways either absolutely or subject to conditions, including conditions as to place and direction of entry and departure, and either generally or at or between specified times;

††††††††††††
(h)†
regulating the routes or directions to be followed by vehicles from one specified point to another;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
regulating the relative position in the roadway of traffic of differing speeds or types;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
prescribing highways or parts of highways which may be specially designated and attaching special responsibility to drivers of vehicles entering those highways or parts of highways;

††††††††††††
(k)†
prescribing the places where vehicles may not turn so as to face in the opposite direction to that in which they were proceeding or where they may so turn only under conditions prescribed by the regulations;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
regulating the carriage of loads of exceptionally heavy mass or exceptionally large dimensions on highways;

††††††††††
(m)†
regulating the number and dimensions and mass of trailers which may be drawn on highways by vehicles;

††††††††††††
(n)†
regulating the loading and unloading of articles onto or from vehicles on specified highways;

††††††††††††
(o)†
regulating the transportation of inflammable substances on highways;

††††††††††††
(p)†
regulating the stopping of vehicles in specified highways for the purposes of picking up or discharging passengers;

††††††††††††
(q)†
regulating the maximum mass of loads which may be carried by commercial motor vehicles on highways and the maximum gross mass at which vehicles may be operated;

†††††††††††††
(r)†
regulating the manner in which and the times and places at which and the conditions on which vehicles may draw up, stand, park, wait or be left unattended on highways;

†††††††††††††
(t)†
regulating the parking, standing or waiting of vehicles on highways, in order to facilitate snow ploughing, snow removal or street cleaning;

††††††††††††
(u)†
prescribing rules as to procedure to be observed as between vehicles proceeding in the same direction or in opposite directions or when crossing;

††††††††††††
(v)†
prescribing the signals to be used by traffic officers engaged in regulating traffic;

†††††††††††
(w)†
regulating the leading or driving of horses, cattle, sheep and other animals on highways;

††††††††††††
(x)†
regulating the manner and prescribing the conditions subject to which and the times at which horses may be ridden on highways;

††††††††††††
(y)†
prescribing places in highways and other public places where vehicles may or may not wait, either generally or at particular times, and the manner of placing those vehicles;

††††††††††††
(z)†
regulating the erection or placing and the removal of works or objects likely to hinder the free circulation of traffic on a highway or likely to occasion danger to passengers or vehicles;

†††††††††
(aa)†
regulating the reservation of highways or parts of highways for parking purposes and the charging and collection of fees for parking, by means of mechanical appliances, and generally in respect of other matters in connection with parking for which the minister considers regulations necessary;

†††††††††
(bb)†
respecting the securing of loads carried by motor vehicles and trailers;

††††††††††
(cc)†
respecting the registration of mopeds and the operation of mopeds on a highway;

†††††††††
(dd)†
designating buses as school buses or exempting buses from the designation of being school buses; and

††††††††††
(ee)†
for enabling the department in the event of a person failing to do anything which under the regulations that person ought to have done, to do the act and to recover the expenses of doing the act from the person so in default as a civil debt.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The minister may make different regulations under subsection (1) in respect of different classes or descriptions of vehicles or traffic and in respect of the same class or description of vehicles or traffic in different circumstances and the minister may make regulations to apply generally or to a particular part of the province or to particular places or highways or parts of highways or classes of highways and generally or during particular periods or at or between specified times or on specified occasions or at specified times only or in particular circumstances or conditions only and may prescribe exceptions or limitations in favour of or against vehicles or traffic of a particular class or kind or vehicles operated for a specified purpose.

††††††††††††
(3)†
A person who acts in contravention of a regulation made under this section is guilty of an offence, but a regulation may state that it is for the purposes of direction and in that case a contravention does not constitute an offence.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A regulation made by the minister under this section may provide that failure by a person to comply with it or that failure to comply with the indication given by a traffic sign or to exercise special caution when a sign for warning users of the highway of the need for special caution is displayed shall not of itself make that person liable to prosecution under this Act but that a failure of that kind may in a proceeding be relied upon by a party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negate the liability which is in question in those proceedings.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A person shall not operate a motor vehicle or trailer on a highway where the motor vehicle or trailer does not comply with regulations applicable to the class or description of vehicles to which the vehicle belongs as to construction, mass or equipment of the vehicle.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, the minister may, in a regulation made under subsection (1), prescribe penalties, in addition to the penalties prescribed by this Act, for failure to comply with or other contravention of

††††††††††††
(a)†
the regulations; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
a term or condition prescribed in or in respect of or attached to a permit or licence issued under the regulations,

†† 188.
(1)†The Chief of Police may in respect of a part of the province in which the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary performs policing duties and the commanding officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the province may in respect of a part of the province in which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police performs policing duties make and publish in an appropriate newspaper, orders

††††††††††††
(a)†
as to the line to be kept by persons driving or riding a vehicle or animals on a highway;

††††††††††††
(b)†
as to the manner in which vehicles may be drawn up while waiting on a highway;

††††††††††††
(c)†
as to the route to be observed by a vehicle, horses and persons; and

††††††††††††
(d)†
for preventing obstructions on a highway in a case where the highway is likely to be thronged or obstructed.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The Chief of Police or the commanding officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police may give directions to traffic officers for the purpose of regulating traffic in the neighbourhood of public offices, churches, theatres and other places of public resort.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Every breach of an order made or directions given under subsections (1) and (2) constitutes a separate offence.

††††††††††††
(4)†
An order made under this section does not constitute subordinate legislation for the purpose of the Statutes and Subordinate Legislation Act.

†† 189.
(1)†The Minister of Works, Services and Transportation may by order delegate to the council of a municipality power to make regulations, which shall not conflict with this Act,

††††††††††††
(a)†
fixing the maximum or minimum speeds at which motor vehicles may be driven upon a highway in the municipality;

††††††††††††
(b)†
regulating the use of specified highways or parts of them either absolutely or subject to conditions, including conditions as to place and direction of entry and departure and either generally or at or between specified times;

††††††††††††
(c)†
regulating the routes or directions to be followed by vehicles from one specified point to another;

††††††††††††
(d)†
regulating the relative position in the roadway of traffic of differing speeds or types;

††††††††††††
(e)†
prescribing the places where vehicles may not turn so as to face in the opposite direction to that in which they were proceeding or where they may so turn only under conditions prescribed by the regulations;

††††††††††††
(f)†
regulating the loading and unloading of articles onto or from vehicles on specified highways;

††††††††††††
(g)†
regulating the stopping of vehicles on specified highways for the purpose of picking up or discharging passengers;

††††††††††††
(h)†
regulating the manner in which and the times and places at which and the conditions on which vehicles may draw up, stand, park, wait or be left unattended on highways;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
regulating the parking, standing or waiting of vehicles on highways, in order to facilitate snow ploughing, snow removal or street cleaning;

††††††††††††
(k)†
regulating the leading or driving of horses, cattle, sheep and other animals on highways;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
regulating the manner and prescribing the conditions subject to which and the times at which horses may be ridden on highways;

††††††††††
(m)†
prescribing places on highways and in other public places where vehicles may or may not wait, either generally or at particular times, and the manner of placing those vehicles;

††††††††††††
(n)†
regulating the reservation of highways or parts of highways for parking purposes and the charging and collection of fees for parking, and generally in respect of other matters in connection with parking for which the council considers regulations necessary; and

††††††††††††
(o)†
for enabling the council, in the event of a person failing to do anything which under the regulations that person ought to have done, to do that act and to recover the expenses of that act from the person so in default as a civil debt.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A council to which the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation has delegated power under subsection (1) may make different regulations under that subsection in respect of different classes or descriptions of vehicles or traffic and in respect of the same class or description of vehicles or traffic in different circumstances, and may make regulations to apply generally or to a particular part of the municipality or to particular places or roads, streets or bridges and generally or during particular periods or at or between specified times or on specified occasions or at specified times only or in particular circumstances or conditions only, and may prescribe exceptions or limitations in favour of or against vehicles or traffic of a particular class or kind of vehicles operated for a specified purpose.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Subject to the approval of the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation, a council may make regulations under subsection (1) specifying penalties.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A council which makes regulations in respect of a matter referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (n) may appoint 1 or more peace officers to enforce the regulations.

††††††††††††
(5)†
A peace officer appointed under subsection (4) has and may exercise within the limits of the municipality under the control and management of the council the powers of a peace officer in connection with the enforcement of the regulations made by the council under subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(6)†
Notwithstanding subsection (7), regulations made by a council under subsection (1) have effect only within the limits of the municipality and in respect of those roads, streets, lanes, sidewalks, parking areas and bridges within the municipality the ownership, management or control of which is vested in the council and, subject to the approval of the minister, in respect of a highway which passes through the municipality and the ownership, management and control of which is not vested in the council.

††††††††††††
(7)†
A council to which the minister has delegated the power to make regulations under subsection (1) has and shall be considered to have had power to amend or revoke and substitute other regulations for regulations made by the minister under section 187 or section 60 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act
on a matter referred to in subsection (1) and regulations made under subsection (1) prevail over regulations made under section 187 or section 60 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act
in respect of those matters referred to in subsection (1) of this section.

††††††††††††
(8)†
A council shall publish a notice in the Gazette
and in at least one newspaper circulating in the municipality stating that it has made regulations under this section and the council shall make the regulations available upon request, without charge.

††††††††††††
(9)†
Regulations made by a council under this section have effect from the date of publication of the notice referred to in subsection (8) in the Gazette
or from a later date that may be specified in the regulations.

†††††††††
(10)†
Regulations made by a council under this section but not published in the Gazette
as required by subsection (8) as it read before the passage of subsection (8) at the same time as the passage of this subsection are considered to have had effect for all purposes notwithstanding that they were not published.

†††††††††
(11)†
Subsection (10) is considered to have come into force on June 22, 19
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.

189.1
(1)†Notwithstanding paragraph 2(aa), in this section highway includes a place or way on airport authority lands.

††††††††††††
(2)†
An airport authority, named in an order that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make, may with the approval of the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation make regulations

††††††††††††
(a)†
fixing the maximum or minimum speeds at which motor vehicles may be driven upon airport authority lands;

††††††††††††
(b)†
regulating the use of specified highways or parts of them either absolutely or subject to conditions, including conditions as to place and direction of entry;

††††††††††††
(c)†
regulating the routes or directions to be followed by vehicles from one specified point to another;

††††††††††††
(d)†
regulating the relative position in the roadway of traffic of differing speeds or types;

††††††††††††
(e)†
prescribing the places where vehicles may not turn so as to face in the opposite direction to that in which they were proceeding or where they may so turn only under conditions prescribed by the regulations;

††††††††††††
(f)†
regulating the loading and unloading of articles onto or from vehicles on specified highways;

††††††††††††
(g)†
regulating the stopping of vehicles on specified highways for the purpose of picking up or discharging passengers;

††††††††††††
(h)†
regulating the manner in which and the times and places at which and the conditions on which vehicles may draw up, stand, park, wait or be left unattended on highways;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
regulating the parking, standing or waiting of vehicles on highways, in order to facilitate snow ploughing, snow removal or street cleaning;

††††††††††††
(k)†
regulating the leading or driving of horses, cattle, sheep and other animals on highways;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
regulating the manner and prescribing the conditions subject to which and the times at which horses may be ridden on highways;

††††††††††
(m)†
prescribing the places on highways and in other public places where vehicles may or may not wait, either generally or at particular times, and the manner of placing those vehicles;

††††††††††††
(n)†
regulating the reservation of highways or parts of highways for parking purposes and the charging and collection of fees for parking and generally in respect of other matters in connection with parking; and

††††††††††††
(o)†
creating an offence for contravention of the regulations and prescribing a penalty in the form of a fine, a late payment penalty and imprisonment in default of payment of a fine or late payment penalty.

††††††††††††
(3)†
Different regulations may be made under subsection (2) in respect of different classes or descriptions of vehicles or traffic and in respect of the same class or description of vehicles or traffic in different circumstances, and may apply generally or to a particular part of the airport authority lands or to particular places or roads, streets or bridges and may apply generally or during particular periods or at or between specified times or on specified occasions or at specified times only or in particular circumstances or conditions only.

††††††††††††
(4)†
An airport authority may appoint one or more persons to enforce regulations made under subsection (2).

††††††††††††
(5)†
Regulations made under subsection (2) have effect only within the airport authority lands of the airport authority making the regulations.

††††††††††††
(6)†
Regulations made under subsection (2) shall be published in the Gazette
and in at least one other newspaper circulating in the municipality nearest the airport property and shall have effect from the date of publication in the Gazette
or from a later date that may be specified in the regulations.

189.2
(1)†A fine recovered under the regulations made under subsection 189.1(2) shall be forwarded by the court imposing the fine to the Department of Justice which shall send the fine to the airport authority.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The airport authority shall pay the province $5, or another amount that the Minister of Justice may order, for every ticket processed by the province for a violation of the regulations made under section 189.1.

†† 190.
(1)†A council to which the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation has delegated power under subsection 189(1)†has, with the approval of the minister, which approval may be given to the council generally or with respect to particular traffic signs or classes of traffic signs, the power to place on a road, street, lane, sidewalk, bridge or highway referred to in subsection 189(6) traffic signs referred to in Part V or prescribed by regulations made by the minister under Part I.1 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act
.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Section 34.3 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act†
applies to traffic signs placed on a highway under subsection (1).

†† 191.
The St. John's Municipal Council may delegate to a commission, to be known as "The St. John's Traffic Commission" consisting of 7 persons appointed annually by the council, all or any of the powers delegated to the council or approved by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation under sections 189 and 190 and those sections shall apply to the commission as if it were a council to which powers were delegated or approved by the minister under those sections.

†† 192.
The Corner Brook City Council may delegate to a commission, to be known as "The Corner Brook Traffic Commission", appointed annually by the council, all or any of the powers delegated to the council or approved by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation under sections 189 and 190 and those sections shall apply to the commission as if it were a council to which powers were delegated or approved by the minister under those sections.

†† 193.
The Mount Pearl City Council may delegate to a commission, to be known as "The Mount Pearl Traffic Commission," appointed annually by the council, all or any of the powers delegated to the council or approved by the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation under sections 189 and 190 and those sections shall apply to the commission as if it were a council to which powers were delegated or approved by the minister under those sections.

††††††††††††
(a)†
regulating the issue of certificates to instructors;

††††††††††††
(b)†
prescribing the qualifications required to be met by an instructor before a certificate is issued to him or her in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a);

††††††††††††
(c)†
regulating the conditions under which an instructor may instruct persons learning to drive;

††††††††††††
(d)†
prescribing the equipment for dual-control training vehicles and other motor vehicles to be used by instructors in the instruction of persons learning to drive; and

††††††††††††
(e)†
prohibiting a person from advertising or otherwise holding himself or herself out for compensation as an instructor or instructing a person for compensation where he or she does not hold a certificate issued in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) and a licence issued by the registrar under regulations made under section 195.

††††††††††††
(2)†
In this section

††††††††††††
(a)†
"dual-control training vehicle" means a motor vehicle equipped with at least 2 brake pedals and 2 steering wheels and so designed that the vehicle can be operated from either the right or left hand position; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
"instructor" means a person who is the holder of a valid driver's licence and operates a motor vehicle for the purpose of instructing another person with regard to the skill and knowledge necessary for the safe operation of a motor vehicle.

†† 195.
(1)†The minister may make regulations for the better administration of Parts II and III

††††††††††††
(a)†
regulating the equipment and appliances which shall be installed in or form part of a vehicle to ensure its safe operation and control, to protect passengers being carried in the vehicle and other persons and vehicles using the highway, and to eliminate or reduce noise or other nuisances incidental to the operation of the vehicle and in particular regulating

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the steering gear,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
the number and nature of the brakes,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
the installation and operation of lights, including headlights, tail lights, brake lights, identification lights, parking lights, clearance lights, directional lights, spotlights, fog lamps and other auxiliary lights, distinguishing lights for use on emergency vehicles and other classes of vehicles which may be specified in the regulations, lights on animal-drawn vehicles and lights on bicycles,

††††††††
(a.2)†
providing for and requiring the identification and marking of bicycle helmets;

††††††††
(a.3)†
exempting any person or class of persons from the requirements of paragraph 129(2)(c.1) and prescribing conditions for exemptions;

††††††††††††
(b)†
regulating the equipping of vehicles with luggage racks and carriers and the packing or stowage of luggage;

††††††††††††
(c)†
regulating the sale or other transfer of vehicles whose equipment and appliances do not comply with the regulations;

††††††††††††
(d)†
providing for the designation of inspectors to inspect vehicles;

††††††††††††
(e)†
requiring or providing for the inspection of vehicles on a highway or elsewhere generally or under circumstances or for purposes specified in the regulations;

††††††††††††
(f)†
providing for the classification of vehicles on the basis of the results of an inspection and the issue of certificates of classification;

††††††††††††
(g)†
prescribing standards to be met by a vehicle on an inspection before it may be operated for specified purposes or at all and prohibiting the use of a vehicle which does not meet those standards or providing for its use subject to prescribed conditions or restrictions;

††††††††††††
(h)†
requiring that equipment and appliances referred to in the regulations be efficient and kept in good working order;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
regulating the use of equipment and appliances on vehicles which may cause annoyance or danger to persons or other vehicles using the highway or damage to highways;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
regulating the use of horns, bells, sirens or other devices or appliances used to give warning of the approach of vehicles;

††††††††††††
(k)†
prescribing the colour of school buses or a class of school buses or of the same class used in different circumstances or for different purposes;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
regulating the operation of taxis, a class of taxis or certain taxis and in particular regulating or prescribing

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the conduct of passengers in taxis and the drivers of them,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
the documents, plates, markers and marks to be carried and the manner in which they are to be carried and displayed,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
the taking up and setting down of passengers,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
the carriage of luggage and goods on taxis, and

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
the equipment to be carried in taxis or on them;

††††††††††
(m)†
regulating the equipment to be carried on and the operation of buses or school buses and in particular regulating or prescribing

†††††††††††††††††††††
(i)†
the conduct of passengers in them,

††††††††††††††††††††
(ii)†
the conduct of persons acting as drivers or conductors of buses or school buses,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iii)†
the documents, plates, markers and marks to be carried and the manner in which they are to be carried and displayed,

†††††††††††††††††††
(iv)†
the taking up and setting down of passengers,

††††††††††††††††††††
(v)†
the carriage of luggage and goods on buses or school buses,

†††††††††††††††††††
(vi)†
the equipment to be carried on buses or school buses, and

††††††††††††††††††
(vii)†
the number of passengers a bus or school bus is adapted to carry and the maximum number who may be carried;

††††††††††††
(n)†
prescribing the manner in which identification plates and markers issued under subsection 34(1) shall be affixed and displayed, and prescribing those plates, markers or both which may be issued by the registrar in addition to those issued under sections 16 and 34, the conditions under which those plates and markers may be issued and the manner in which those plates and markers shall be affixed or displayed;

††††††††††††
(o)†
prescribing the method and the indicator by which the expiry month applicable to the annual renewal of each vehicle licence shall be determined;

††††††††††††
(p)†
regulating the transfer of ownership of vehicles;

††††††††††††
(q)†
establishing, for the purpose of the issuing of drivers' licences, classes of motor vehicles;

†††††††††††††
(r)†
regulating the issuing of and prescribing the qualifications for drivers' licences to drivers of different classes of vehicles;

††††††††††††
(s)†
prescribing the minimum age of persons to whom drivers' licences may be issued for the operation of motor vehicles including prescribing a different minimum age in relation to licences to operate different classes of motor vehicles;

†††††††††††††
(t)†
prescribing the number of years of experience required to operate different classes of motor vehicles;

††††††††††††
(u)†
providing for different medical tests and standards that the registrar may require before issuing a licence to operate a particular class of motor vehicle;

††††††††
(u.1)†
prescribe requirements for the successful completion of an educational program prior to reinstatement of driving privileges for a driver whose driver's licence was suspended due to alcohol or drug-related offences;

††††††††
(u.2)†
provide for screening tests to determine whether or not a driver is dependent upon alcohol or other drugs and, where necessary, completion of an appropriate rehabilitation program before a driver's licence reinstatement for drivers with repeat alcohol-related or drug or drug and alcohol-related suspensions;

††††††††††††
(v)†
providing for the endorsement of drivers' licences to authorize the holders of them to operate vehicles equipped with air brakes;

†††††††††††
(w)†
regulating the issue of those licences or permits other than those specified in this section that may, in the opinion of the minister, be necessary or desirable in respect of the operation of vehicles;

††††††††††††
(x)†
prescribing the qualifications of persons to be appointed to examine applicants for drivers' licences; and

††††††††††††
(y)†
varying or supplementing the provisions of section 55 on the subject of instruction in driving.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The minister may in addition to or instead of regulations made under paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (g) adopt by reference and constitute as regulations the whole or part or provisions of a code adopted or standards fixed, with or without modification and including amendments now or afterward made, by the Canadian Standards Association and a certificate of the minister that a document is a copy of a code or standard referred to in this subsection or an extract from, a modification of or an amendment to a code or standard is without further proof presumptive evidence of the content of that code or standard or extract or amendment.

††††††††
(2.1)†
The minister may in addition to or instead of regulations made under paragraph (a.1) adopt by reference and constitute as regulations the whole or part or provisions of a code adopted or standards fixed, with or without modification and including amendments now or afterward made, by an organization acceptable to the minster and a certificate of the minister that a document is a copy of a code or standard referred to in this subsection or an extract from, a modification of or an amendment to a code or standard is without further proof presumptive evidence of the content of that code or standard or extract or amendment.

††††††††††††
(3)†
The minister may, in addition to or instead of regulations made under subsection (1), adopt, with or without modification, by reference and constitute as regulations the whole or a part or a provision of a medical code adopted or standards fixed, and including amendments to a medical code or standard now or afterward made, by the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A certificate of the minister that a document is a copy of a code or standard referred to in subsection (3) or an extract is without further proof presumptive evidence of the content of that code or standard or extract or amendment.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, in a regulation made under this section, the minister may prescribe penalties for a failure to comply with or other contravention of the regulations.

††††††††††††
(e)†
a class of person specified in regulations made under subsection 196(1),

determines that a vehicle is a non-repairable vehicle or a salvage vehicle, that person shall report that determination to the registrar in a form required by the registrar within 10 calendar days after the determination is made.

††††††††††††
(c)†
prescribing the conditions that shall attach to the establishment and registration of official inspection stations;

††††††††††††
(d)†
prescribing the qualifications of persons who may perform inspections or tests;

††††††††††††
(e)†
prescribing the records that shall be kept, and the manner in which they shall be kept, respecting work performed in the course of, or in connection with, an inspection;

††††††††††††
(f)†
providing for the examination of records kept in connection with an inspection by those persons that the registrar may designate;

††††††††††††
(g)†
providing the means to identify official inspection stations;

††††††††††††
(h)†
providing the means to identify those persons authorized to perform inspections and tests;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
prescribing the inspections and tests to which motor vehicles, or classes of motor vehicles, are to be submitted;

†††††††††††††
(j)†
prescribing when or how often motor vehicles are to be submitted to inspections and tests;

††††††††††††
(k)†
[Rep. by 1996 cR-10.1 s35]

††††††††††††
(k)†
requiring classes of persons to report a determination that a vehicle is a non-repairable vehicle or a salvage vehicle;

†††††††††††††
(l)†
[Rep. by 1996 cR-10.1 s35]

††††††††††
(m)†
requiring the owners of vehicles that do not pass an inspection or test to take the action that is necessary so that the vehicles will be able to pass the inspections and tests; and

††††††††††††
(n)†
prescribing penalties for violations of the regulations made under this section including the revocation of authorization to perform motor vehicle inspections and tests issued under the regulations.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The owner of every motor vehicle registered under this Act shall submit the vehicle to the periodic inspections and tests that are required by the regulations.

††††††††††††
(f)†
prescribing periods of suspension where, because of fatigue, medication, drugs, alcohol, general physical condition or other impairment, an inspector considers a driver unsuitable to operate a commercial motor vehicle;

††††††††††††
(h)†
prescribing a system of rating the performance of commercial motor vehicle carriers and prescribing penalties, including suspension, which may be assessed against those carriers having an unsatisfactory rating;

†††††††††††††
(i)†
prescribing the procedure for an inspector to conduct an audit of the records of a commercial motor vehicle carrier for the purpose of determining whether the regulations are being complied with;

††††††††††
(i.1)†
respecting the sale or transfer of his or her business or assets by a commercial motor vehicle carrier; and

†††††††††††††
(j)†
prescribing inspections of a commercial motor vehicle that a driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall perform and the reports required concerning those inspections.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The minister may, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, prescribe a penalty for a contravention of the regulations made under subsection (1).

††††††††††††
(3)†
In this section "commercial motor vehicle carrier" means a person, partnership or corporation that owns, leases or is responsible for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle for the purpose of transporting passengers or goods.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Where an action is brought against a non-resident for the recovery of damages occasioned by a motor vehicle the court may order the defendant to post security for a judgment that may be given and order the motor vehicle to be detained until the security has been posted.

†† 199.
A contract for the conveyance of a passenger in a bus or school bus is void so far as it purports to

††††††††††††
(a)†
negate or to restrict the liability of a person in respect of a claim that may be made against that person in respect of the death of or bodily injury to the passenger while being carried in or entering or alighting from the vehicle; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
impose conditions with respect to the enforcement of that liability.

†† 200.
(1)†Without effect upon the liability of the driver of a vehicle, the owner of a vehicle is liable for loss or damage sustained by a person because of negligence in the operation of the vehicle unless the vehicle was without the owner's consent in the possession of some person other than the owner.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person driving a vehicle who is living with and as a member of the family of the owner of the vehicle shall be considered to be in possession of it with the owner's consent unless the contrary is proved.

†† 201.
A prosecution for an offence under this Act or the regulations or under regulations made under section 189 or 189.1 shall be started and process served not later than one year after the offence was committed, except where those regulations provide that a prosecution for an offence shall be started within a shorter period.

201.1
(1)†A peace officer, in the lawful execution of his or her duties, may require the driver of a motor vehicle to stop, and the driver of the motor vehicle, when signaled or requested to stop by a peace officer who is readily identifiable as such, shall immediately come to a safe stop and remain stopped until permitted by the peace officer to depart.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A peace officer may, at any time when a driver is stopped,

††††††††††††
(a)†
require the driver to give his or her name, date of birth and address to the officer;

††††††††††††
(b)†
require the driver to produce his or her licence, and the vehicle's insurance certificate and registration and another document respecting the motor vehicle that the peace officer considers necessary;

††††††††††††
(c)†
inspect an item produced under paragraph (b);

††††††††††††
(d)†
request information from the driver about whether and to what extent the driver consumed alcohol or drugs before or while driving;

††††††††††††
(e)†
require the driver to go through a field sobriety test;

††††††††††††
(f)†
request information from the driver about whether and to what extent the driver is experiencing a physical or mental condition that may affect his or her driving ability; and

††††††††††††
(g)†
inspect the motor vehicle's mechanical condition and request information from the driver about it.

††††††††††††
(3)†
For the purpose of enforcing a provision of this Act or the regulations, a peace officer may require a vehicle's passenger to give his or her name, date of birth and address to the officer.

††††††††††††
(4)†
A peace officer is not required to inform a driver or passenger of his or her right to counsel, or to give the driver or passenger the opportunity to consult counsel, before doing anything subsection (2) or†(3) authorizes.

††††††††††††
(5)†
Nothing in this section†limits or negates a peace officer's authority to request information from a driver or passenger or to make observations of a driver or passenger that are necessary for the purpose of road safety enforcement.

202.1
A person designated as a fishery officer or fishery guardian under the Fisheries Act
(Canada) may, without a warrant, stop a person driving a vehicle on a highway where the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the person has committed an offence, or the officer finds that person committing an offence, contrary to the Fisheries Act
(Canada), and that person is upon conviction liable to the penalty prescribed in the Schedule.

202.2
A person designated as a game officer under the Migratory Birds Act
(Canada) may, without a warrant, stop a person driving a vehicle on a highway where the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the person has committed an offence, or the officer finds that person committing an offence contrary to regulations made under the Migratory Birds Convention Act
(Canada), and that person is liable upon conviction to the penalty prescribed in the Schedule.

202.3
An enforcement officer may, without a warrant, stop a person driving a vehicle on a highway where the enforcement officer believes on reasonable grounds that the person has committed an offence, or the officer finds that person committing an offence, contrary to the† Endangered Species Act
, the Forestry Act
, the Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles Act
, the Wild Life Act
or regulations made under one of those statutes, and that person is upon conviction liable to the penalty prescribed in the Schedule.

†† 203.
(1)†A peace officer may remove to and detain at an appropriate place a motor vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
with which an offence was committed or the owner or driver of which has been arrested, until the final disposition of a prosecution under this Act or theCriminal Code
or another Act; or

††††††††††††
(b)†
which has directly or indirectly, been involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or the death of a person or damage to property in an amount apparently exceeding $500.

††††††††††††
(2)†
The owner or driver of a motor vehicle that has been detained under subsection (1) may, after giving at least 24 hours' written notice to the peace officer in charge in the place where the motor vehicle is detained, apply to the Provincial Court
judge having jurisdiction in that place for the release of the motor vehicle.

††††††††††††
(3)†
On hearing the application made under subsection (2) the Provincial Court
judge may order the release of the motor vehicle subject to those conditions that the Provincial Court
judge imposes where the applicant gives security satisfactory to the Provincial Court
judge for the production of the motor vehicle where required.

††††††††††††
(4)†
The Attorney General may, where a person referred to in this section is convicted of an offence, recover as a civil debt from the owner of the motor vehicle that was used in the commission of the offence and that was detained under this section the costs and charges for the removal, detention, care and storage of that vehicle and those costs and charges constitute a lien in favour of the Crown while the vehicle is held in detention and, subject to a prior encumbrance registered under the Bills of Sale Act
, the Attorney General may enforce the lien in the manner provided in section 45 of the Mechanics' Lien Act
.

†† 204.
An action or other legal proceeding shall not be taken or brought against the Attorney General or a peace officer in respect of anything done under section 203 where the action or other legal proceeding is not based on malfeasance or misfeasance.

204.1
(1)†An action or other legal proceeding does not lie and may not be brought against the registrar, an employee of the department, a peace officer, a traffic officer or a garage operator in respect of anything done under subsection 75(6.1) or under regulations respecting the seizure, impoundment and sale or other disposal of vehicles, where the action or other proceeding is not based on malfeasance or misfeasance.

††††††††††††
(2)†
For the purpose of this section, a garage operator is a person who takes and stores a motor vehicle seized and impounded under subsection 75(6.1) or under regulations respecting the seizure, impoundment and sale or other disposal of vehicles and who may subsequently dispose of that vehicle in accordance with those regulations.

†† 205.
(1)†Where a driver or a passenger who contravenes this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189 or 189.1 refuses to give his or her name and address or gives a false name or address to a peace officer or a person having reasonable grounds for requiring the name or address that driver or passenger is guilty of an offence.

††††††††††††
(2)†
Where the driver of a vehicle is alleged to be guilty of an offence under this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189 or 189.1 or of an offence involving dishonesty towards a passenger or with respect to goods or freight on a vehicle

††††††††††††
(a)†
the owner of the vehicle shall give the information that may be required by a peace officer as to the identity of the driver and on failing to do so is guilty of an offence unless the court is satisfied that the owner did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver was; and

††††††††††††
(b)†
another person shall where required in accordance with paragraph (a) give any information that it is in the person's power to give and that may lead to the identification of the driver and a person who fails to do so is guilty of an offence.

205.1
(1)†The minister may issue to a person who applies for it an identification card containing a photograph of the person.

††††††††††††
(2)†
A person who wishes to obtain an identification card shall apply providing the minister with proof of identification and of age and the other information which the minister may require and shall pay the fee set by the minister.

††††††††††††
(3)†
An identification card issued under this section shall be valid and shall be accepted for all purposes for which proof of identification is required under an Act or for another lawful purpose.

††††††††††††
(4)†
An identification card issued under this section shall expire on the date shown on the card.

††††††††††††
(b)†
gives a false or fictitious name or gives a false or fictitious address or other false or fictitious information in an application for an identification card issued under this section; or

††††††††††††
(c)†
displays, permits to be displayed or possesses an identification card which purports to be issued under this section but is fictitious or which was issued under this section but has been defaced, altered or cancelled,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine described in the Schedule.

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(6)†
A driverís licence issued by the registrar under section 46 which contains a photograph of the person to whom it was issued shall be valid and acceptable for all purposes for which an identification card issued under this section is valid and acceptable.

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(7)†
An identification card issued under this section is valid for all purposes for which an identification card issued under section 59 of the Liquor Control Act
is valid.

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(a)†
this Act or the regulations, including a regulation made in exercise of a power delegated to a council of a municipality under section 189 or an order made under this Act or the regulations; or

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(b)†
a term or condition prescribed in or in respect of or attached to a permit or licence issued under this Act or the regulations

and who in respect of the failure or contravention has not been declared guilty of an offence by another provision of this Act is guilty of an offence.

†† 207.
For the purpose of this Act, except section 110 and paragraphs 43(5)(b) and (c) and 43(6)(b) and (c) and subsection 75(5.1), and the regulations and regulations made under section 189, an offence shall not be considered a second or subsequent offence unless it has been committed within one year from the date of the last previous offence.

†† 208.
(1)†Notwithstanding the Provincial Offences Act
, unless otherwise provided by this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189, a person who has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189 is liable to a fine of not more than the maximum and not less than the minimum amount prescribed for the offence in the Schedule and appearing in that Schedule opposite the number or letter or both of the section, subsection or paragraph and the statement of the offence and in default of payment of the fine or, where no fine is prescribed, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum and not less than the minimum period prescribed for that offence in that Schedule and appearing there opposite the number or letter of the section, subsection or paragraph and the statement of the offence.

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(2)†
A person who is guilty of an offence under this Act for which a penalty has not been prescribed in another provision of this Act or in the Schedule shall be liable on summary conviction

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(a)†
where the offence is a 1st offence, to a fine of not less than $30 and not more than $200 and in default of payment of a fine to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months; and

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(b)†
where the offence is a 2nd or subsequent offence to a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $500 and in default of payment of a fine to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months.

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(3)†
The Attorney General or a person authorized by the Attorney General in writing may, either before or after the institution of proceedings against a person for a violation of this Act referred to in the Schedule or for another violation of this Act or the regulations or regulations made under section 189, accept from the person alleged to have been guilty of the violation a payment of a sum not less than the minimum nor more than the maximum fine prescribed for the violation.

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(4)†
A payment made under subsection (3) constitutes a full satisfaction, release and discharge of all penalties and imprisonments incurred by the person charged for the violation.

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(5)†
The payment of an amount under subsection (3) has for the purpose of this Act the same effect as if the person paying the amount had been convicted for the violation in respect of which the amount was paid and a certificate or a copy of a receipt signed by the Attorney General or the person authorized by the Attorney General under subsection (3) to the effect that the amount has been paid is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the conviction without further proof.

†† 209.
(1)†Where a person who has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations fails to pay the fine with respect to that offence within 60 days from the date of conviction, the person shall pay a late payment penalty in addition to the fine.

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(2)†
The late payment penalty referred to in subsection (1) shall be

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(a)†
in the case of a fine which is $50 or less than $50, $6;

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(b)†
in the case of a fine which is greater than $50 and less than or equal to $100, $12; and

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(c)†
in the case of a fine which is greater than $100, $12 plus an additional late payment penalty of $12 for each increment of a $100 fine or part of a $100 up to a maximum late payment penalty of $120.

†† 210.
(1)†Where this Act has been violated, the owner of the vehicle to which that violation applies shall be held responsible for that violation and shall incur a penalty that arises from that violation except where the violation of this Act is one requiring that the vehicle be in motion, in which case, the driver of that vehicle shall be held responsible and shall incur a penalty arising from that violation.

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(1.1)†
Notwithstanding subsection (1), where subsection 110.1(4), 110.2(4) or 137(1) has been violated, the owner of the motor vehicle to which that violation applies may be held responsible for that violation and may incur a penalty that arises from that violation.

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(2)†
The owner of a motor vehicle shall not be held responsible and shall not incur a penalty arising from a violation under this section where he or she can prove that at the time of the violation,

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(a)†
the motor vehicle was in possession of some other person without the owner's consent; or

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(b)†
he or she was the registered owner of the motor vehicle but he or she was not entitled to possession of the motor vehicle.

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(2.1)†
The owner of a motor vehicle under subsection (1.1) shall not be held responsible and shall not incur a penalty arising from a violation where the driver of the motor vehicle has been held responsible and incurred a penalty for that violation.

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(3)†
The owner of a motor vehicle who incurs a penalty under this section is not liable to imprisonment.

†† 212.
(1)†A penalty when collected, except a penalty imposed as a result of a complaint made by a peace officer appointed in accordance with section 189 for a breach of a regulation made under that section, shall be paid through the Department of Justice into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

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(2)†
A penalty collected as a result of a complaint made by a peace officer appointed in accordance with section 189 shall be paid over to the council concerned by the person collecting the penalty and that council shall make returns that the Minister of Justice may direct, showing the total amount of penalties collected during the period specified in the direction and giving additional information that the Minister of Justice may require.

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(3)†
Notwithstanding subsection (2), the province shall retain $5 or an amount that the Minister of Justice may order, for each ticket that it processes.

†† 213.
(1)†Where a person who is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence by virtue of a conviction or order under this Act, the licence shall be and remain suspended for so long as the disqualification or prohibition continues in force.

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(2)†
A licence suspended under subsection (1) or otherwise by this Act is of no effect during the time of suspension.

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(3)†
For the purpose of this Act, a driver's licence and the privilege to obtain or hold a driver's licence are equivalent.

†† 215.
(1)†The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by order apply this Act or a provision to a way or a part of it which is not a highway as defined by paragraph (2)(aa), whether the way is privately owned or not, where, in the opinion of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, it is used for the passage of vehicles to an extent that an order under this subsection is justified.

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(2)†
Where an order is made under subsection (1) a provision of this Act so made applicable shall, subject to a limitation provided in the order, apply to the way as if it were a highway as defined by that paragraph.

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(3)†
An order may be made under subsection (1) without limitation as to time or for a period specified in the order.

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(4)†
For the purpose of this section "way" includes a road, street, route, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, culvert, viaduct, trestle and any other way.